From a Rioter

This is for all ye toffee-nosed fuckin sadists out there
callin for rough justice.
Fuck the fuckin lot of ye
down into the ground
is what I say.
Ye’re just dronin the same old crap
as all those bullshit experts
and all those fuckin broadloid hacks
that make their fuckin fortune outta lyin
and ye’re only a fuckin crow chorus
for all the fiddlin [...]

Note from IPSC: There will be a final action in the IPSC’s series of ongoing protests at the Gaiety Theatre before Riverdance heads off to perform for Israeli Apartheid - so please make the effort to come along on Thursday 18th June at 18:30, (Gaiety Theatre, South King St, off Grafton St, Dublin 2. More [...]

Kevin Higgins, The Boy With No Face (Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Poetry, 2005)
Kevin Higgins, Poetry, Politics and Dorothy Gone Horribly Astray (Belfast: Lapwing, 2006)
Kevin Higgins, Time Gentlemen, Please (Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Poetry, 2008)
Kevin Higgins, Frightening New Furniture (Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Poetry, 2010)
To write a positive review of Kevin Higgins’ work for the Irish [...]

Book Review: New Finnish Grammar,  Diego Marani  (Dedalus Books)

A man is found battered and close to death on the quayside in Trieste during World War II. His identity is unknown and the man himself has completely lost his memory. Who he is and why he was so violently attacked remains unknown.  Is he Sampo Karjalainen, [...]

Here’s something which Eamonn Crudden passed on to me today to mark the anniversary of the death 10 years ago of Carlo Giuliani, a young anarchist who was shot dead by Italian Police in Genoa during the Anti-Globalisation protests against the G8 meeting in the city.
Below is his 2002 documentary Berlusconi’s Mousetrap, and a 12,000 [...]

Tuesday 19 July, 5:30 p.m.
Book launch
The Making of an Irish Communist Leader
Launch of The Making of an Irish Communist Leader: Michael O’Riordan, 1938-1947
by Michael Quinn
Connolly Books (43 East Essex Street)
Baile Átha Cliath
Máirt 19 Iúil, 5:30 i.n.
Seoladh leabhair
The Making of an Irish Communist Leader
Seoladh The Making of an Irish Communist Leader: Michael O’Riordan, [...]

GAZA DECEMBER 30, 2008

Jawaher was 4 years old
Dina 8
Samar was 12
Ikram 14
Tahir was 17 years old,
all together they made 55,
55 years taken away from their mother
and swallowed by the bellies
of Barak and lmert.
Don’t forget about Balusha
where they couldn’t bury
the bodies of their children
—murdered in their young sleep—
in the Martyrs cemetery;
they weren’t terrorists
at all, as Barak [...]

The Soft Underbelly of homo lordaniensis-being sort of a review, but more an anatomy I’d like to think, of
Invitation to a Sacrifice (Knockeven: Salmon, 2010) pbk, 124pp
Most English-language poetry suffers from its practitioners’ besetting niceness and an excess of formula.  A poet writes a book in which persons, stories and places are sculpted into illustrations [...]

What do you get after mixing shining stars of the independent cinema, the Irish Film Bord, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, BFCE Irish School of Animation and the Film School in Lodz? A dynamo playground for filmmakers.Play Poland - Irish/Polish Film Project is a unique festival celebrating independent Irish and Polish film art. [...]

On Monday 20th of June the Launch of the North Beach Nights Anthology which features three writers Mickey Mc Rory, Mark James and myself will take place upstairs in the Crane Bar, Sea Road Galway at 7. 30 PM.
The book will be launched by Cork poet Billy Ramsell who has also written the introduction. It [...]