It's the frustrating week or two when I can't talk yet about the two Rick O'Shea Book Club events, the one bookshop Q&A with an author passing through town, the festival panel I'm hosting, or the small role I'll be playing on an RTE Radio 1 panel series in the run up to the end of the year. Soon.
Stravinsky always looks like he's just spotted something, but when you look, there's nothing there, and he says 'Oh, you missed it; that's a shame; it was amazing. A once-in-a-lifetime thing. I guess I'm just special'
Yup. Live Rick O'Shea Book Club events are back. Details to follow here when I have them. And here, obviously... www.facebook.com/groups/theri...
Registration is open for the MS Readathon 2024! MS Ireland has officially launched the 37th MS Readathon. It takes place from November 1st to December 15th. Find out how you and your kids can get involved at www.msreadathon.ie#msreadathon
All of these. It's the reason I never go to multiplexes anymore apart from media screenings... People in the IFI and Lighthouse are still usually well behaved.
Visited the incredible Straat Museum in Amsterdam's NDSM-werf recently. Posts are too long for here, with too many pictures, but you'll find some incredible work over on the Insta - instagram.com/therickoshea
Latest column including Claire Dederer's thought provoking book on what happens when we love great art by terrible people, Tea Obreht's recent near-future novel about refugees in a half-drowned city and, yes, why the new Sally Rooney made me have a little weep... www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
Every time I visit another city, I find the most cavernous local second-hand bookshop with English language books I can. Last week I was on holiday in Amsterdam and left The Book Exchange on Klovenier...
Seen on Facebook: I was woken at 3am today by my burglar alarm. âTime to go out robbing,â I yawned