
A great day in Bray
Later in the month, I will be back in county Wicklow. Bray with its long seaside promenade is a fantastically inspiring place, which Joyce fondly remembered having lived there for a while as a young boy. (Just in case you are on a Joycean pilgrimage.) I remember a reading I gave once in the Harbour Bar with the Centre for Creative Practices on a Valentine's Day. A pub Joyce often frequented, now a shrine for musicians and poets and the venue where readings are held by the Bra

Cultural diversity and migrant artists
This article about the launch of The Corridor, appeared in the Argus in March. I am posting the link here, included in the image, as it is ever so relevant. The Corridor is an intercultural magazine that grew out of the XBorders Project of the Irish Writers Centre and the Art's Council of Northern Ireland. Edited by Marcel Krueger and curated by his wife Anna Mager, both from Germany. It is great to see this growing cross-border community of writers and artists now that ther