Updated: August 4, 2021, 8:48 am
Support is growing for Invernessian Josephine Tey, the crime writer s crimewriter, to be commemorated in the city with a blue plaque
A groundswell of support has emerged for the placement of a blue plaque in Inverness to recognise one of its most successful daughters, featured recently in the P&J.
Best-selling author and playwright Elizabeth ‘Beth’ MacKintosh, aka Josephine Tey and Gordon Daviot (1896-1952) had strong connections with the city’s Castle Street, where her family owned a successful fruiterer and various other properties which they rented out.
One of their addresses, no 53 Castle Street, was demolished earlier this year, and is in the process of being rebuilt, complete with the original stone façade.
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There s little more helpful when telling tall tales of the long ago in Ireland than a good smattering of the native tongue.
That s why the Kerry Writers Museum, with storyteller Paddy O Brien, is now preparing to host an eight-week online course aimed at giving storytellers, from Ireland and abroad, a better understanding and command of An Ghaeilge, the better to enrich each and every one of their stories with.
After all, the very place-names that populate Irish folklore only come truly alive when viewed through the prism of the language in which they were coined.
Kerry Writers Museum manager Cara Trant said that, in the new course, Paddy will help participants in everything from including more Irish in their stories, to better pronunciation and much more.
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