Back when he played professional football, John Cummins kept his poetry to himself. These days, as poet in residence for Bohemians FC, he can flaunt it pitchside.
It’s a coming-of-age story set in Dublin: north, south, and centre. “I was trying to look for new locations that haven’t been on camera before,” he said.
When a gig organiser told Gary Ó’Nualláin he wouldn’t get paid unless he brought in enough paying audience members, he decided to try to change the city’s live music scene. Months later, he’s disheartened.
Their play “The Examination” includes several stories covering prisoners’ current experiences, and ex-prisoners’ experiences, interwoven with the results of historical research.
This imaginative noir comedy novel follows a misanthropic PI around Ireland – and is built on in-jokes, literary allusions, and puns on Irish language place names and orthography, writes our reviewer.
Beautifully written, this book lulls you along like a river on a calm day. That’s not to say it doesn’t have its moments of drama though, writes Daniel Seery.
