Paul Hosford: Rushed legislation amid paltry scrutiny could leave us all at sea
The Convention Centre, Dublin, host of reduced sittings of the Dail. Allowing a handful of TDs into a 2,000 seater auditorium in the name of viral safety when the top deck of the room, reserved for the media, may as well be in Carlow for its closeness to the action, is ludicrous, says Paul Hosford. Photo: Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie
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If you are working from home during this pandemic, there will be something of a tacit acknowledgement that you are working below your regular level of productivity.
William Butler Yeats: The heart of Ireland - The Berkshire Edge
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Poetic reflections - words upon the Irish Rep theatre window pane
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They say that a dog is a man s best friend, but these writers found solace and occasional inspiration in another four-legged companion. Celebrate your own love of cats with these 13 feline-loving scribes.
1. Mark Twain
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Mark Twain the great humorist and man of American letters was also a great cat lover. When his beloved black cat Bambino went missing, Twain took out an advertisement in the
New York American offering a $5 reward to return the missing cat to his house at 21 Fifth Avenue in New York City. It described Bambino as “Large and intensely black; thick, velvety fur; has a faint fringe of white hair across his chest; not easy to find in ordinary light.” The cat, fortunately, was alright and returned home.
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188 pages – €15.00 (Available on Amazon, $16.95, May 1, 2021)
Langan’s Book Mark: 4/4 Stars
This is a handsome and stylish book, both in looks and, more importantly, in its capacity to appreciate the magic of William Butler Yeats’s poetry. It’s written by Joseph M. Hassett, the careful scholar who has penned two important books about him and his poetry and now a third, Yeats Now.
Joseph Hassett has written extensively on Yeats, as well as on Joyce and other Irish writers. He has a Ph.D. in Anglo-Irish Literature from University College Dublin and is a graduate of Canisius College and Harvard Law School. His previous publications include Yeats and the Poetics of Hate, 1986; W. B. Yeats and the Muses (Oxford University Press, 2010); and “The Ulysses Trials: Beauty and Truth Meet the Law (Lilliput, 2016.)