I had a very busy literary weekend of events. Firstly a walking tour with the Italo-Irish Literary Exchange, which took in Trinity College and Lincoln Place. Then I scooted off to the Faber Social at the Dublin Writers' Festival where I was reading. After that, the
Stinging Fly's 15th birthday bash in The Clarence. And yesterday to the Botanic Gardens for a reading from the Italo section of the exchange. All of it was exhilirating and fun.
I am packing for my trip to the
AEDEI conference in Spain, as I head off tomorrow, so my report on the weekend consists of pics as I am too busy to write anything. Hi to everyone I met this weekend and big congrats to Kevin Barry who did a mighty job of the Faber launch. Kudos, Kevin. Or, as my daughter Juno calls you, 'Heaven' :)
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| Catherine Dunne and Federica Sgaggio |
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| Tour guide Pat Liddy and Jack Gilligan, IWC chair, at TCD |
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| Anthony Glavin at TCD |
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| Original front door of Finn's Hotel where Nora Barnacle worked in 1904, the year she met JJ |
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| Sweny's Chemist, Lincoln Place - features in Ulysses - lemon soap? I bought some - yum! |
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| In the window of Sweny's, a bust in a book of Joyce |
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| Mia Gallagher in Sweny's |
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| PJ Murphy, volunteer at Sweny's, a Joyce pilgrimage stop-off |
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| Kevin Barry, Faber anthology launch, Smock Alley |
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| Paul Murray |
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| Little John Nee |
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| Eimear Ryan at the Faber launch |
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| Me reading 'Joyride to Jupiter' at the Faber launch |
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| The wonderful Michael Harding |
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| Pat McCabe |
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| Writers Helena Mulkerns, Sara Mullen and Patrick Chapman at the Fly birthday |
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| Dave Lordan reading at the Fly birthday |
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| The fabulous Larry Beau at the Fly birthday |
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| The Italian Writers reading at the Botanic Gardens |
