BETTY BOARDMAN, senior executive librarian at Fingal County Council talks to Noel McGuinness about some of the exciting events lined up to mark next year’s centenary. These include: Fingal 1916 Lecture Series at various venues across Fingal Fingal 1916 Centenary Exhibition at Archives and Local Studies, Clonmel House, Swords and Fingal Libraries Irish language lectures…
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FLAC’s 8th Dave Ellis Memorial Lecture
FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres Ltd) invited renowned US public interest lawyer BRYAN STEVENSON to speak at this year’s Dave Ellis Memorial Lecture. Mr STEVENSON’s speech brought home some very powerful points about justice in the US that have great relevance for us here in Ireland. The justice and imprisonment statistics in the US are…
Celebrating Stoker’s Centenary in Dublin 2012
PAUL MURRAY (author of From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker [Jonathan Cape, 2004]); David J. Skal (author of Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen [Norton, 1990]; The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror [Faber and Faber, 1993]) tells Noel McGuinness about the forthcoming…