he said, ‘You were in that terrible play on TV last night. You were awful!’’. Castle roars with laughter. a disruptive effect on those around them. An immediate impression, on meeting him at his favourite Italian business stuff frightens and bores me to death, actually. Also you have to really work at it. He stretches luxuriously. “Anyway, I’m far too lazy and conceited to The 22nd Irish Writers in London Summer School runs from Thursday 8 June to Friday 14 July. For more information, costs and to enrol, please visit the London Met eShop.

Jess Kidd,thewinner of last year’s Costa Short Story Award. She was brought up in London as part of a large family from county Mayo, and is currently working onher first collection of short stories – many of which are either set in Ireland or haveIrishprotagonists. Her first novel,Himself, was shortlisted for theIrishBook Awards 2016 and has been described as ‘lushly imagined, delightfully original and very, very funny.’ Jess joins us to discuss her work and, in particular, her award winning story, ‘Dirty Little Fishes’, about a youngIrishgirl in London who accompanies her mother on visits to a dying woman – with curious consequences. Martina Reisz Newberry is the author of 6 books of poetry. Her most recent book is BLUES FOR FRENCH ROAST WITH CHICORY, available from Deerbrook Editions. She is the author of NEVER COMPLETELY AWAKE ( from Deerbrook Editions), and TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME (Unsolicited Press). She is also the author of WHERE IT GOES (Deerbrook Editions). LEARNING BY ROTE (Deerbrook Editions) and RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE: Collected Poems (Red Hen Press).

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Newberry has been included in The Cenacle, Cog, Blue Nib, Braided Way,Roanoak Review, THAT Literary Review, Mortar Magazine, and many other literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. Her work is included in the anthologies Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Moontide Press Horror Anthology, A Decade of Sundays: L.A.'s Second Sunday Poetry Series-The First Ten Years and others. The course also includes illustrated lectures and optional visits to associatedIrishcultural events in London. That’s easy. I spent seven winters writing in a barn in Devon, at a big table in a bedroom overlooking the lovely gentle hillside that slopes down to a pond and then to the river estuary. Perfect mix of diversion without distraction. Siobhan Campbell,a poet and criticwho is making her second appearance at the Summer School. She was born in Ireland and has interests in post-conflict and cross-community work. She is the author of five books of poetry, includingHeat Signature,published this year, which includes reflections on the commemoration of the Easter Rising. She is also co-editor of a recently published collection of essays about the internationally-renowned poet, Eavan Boland. Siobhan will be discussing both of these books on the Summer School this year.

We were in Egypt, and my mother and I had to be evacuated because of the anti-British sentiment there.If you could be transported instantly, anywhere in the world, where would you most like to spend your time writing? And why? Established in 1996, the Summer School provides an informal but informative setting for participants to read and discuss work by contemporary writers and to meet and talk with them about their work. Northanger Abbey is a 1987 made-for-television film adaptation of Jane Austen's 1817 novel Northanger Abbey, and was originally broadcast on the A&E Network and the BBC on 15 February 1987. [2] [3] It is part of the Screen Two anthology series. [4] Plot [ edit ] With all it’s faults, Northanger Abbey does try hard and as the only version available on film, must be accepted, if only to complete the set of all Austen films to date. The best advice I have heard is, "If you are going to watch it, try to enjoy it with an open mind and no expectations." After all, it does deserve our gratitude. If it hadn’t been for Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice (BBC/A&E 1995) might never have been made. It was at a screening of Northanger Abbey that writer Andrew Davies met producer Sue Birtwistle and the idea of making P&P into "a fresh, lively story about real people" was born.

As if having stepped out of an Ancient Egyptian wall painting, Egyptian geese now feed and breed in my local London park. Native to sub-tropical Africa, the Egyptian goose is undergoing a population explosion here in England, almost certainly due to climate warming. I’ve seen my fellow Londoners walk within yards of these beautiful creatures – their kohled eyes, the sun disc on their creamy breasts – without noticing them. They appear scarcely to notice one another, either. It’s as if they have turned off their senses. But sensitivity to real, lived experience (as opposed to the virtual kind) is something we urgently need to relearn. To Egyptian geese and to each other, embracing the ancient idea that it is possible ‘to live on an equal footing with everything that exists in the natural world.’ (Stattin, ‘Nomads’, 2022) Above all, we must be careful not create a world more brutal than the one we replace. And clues may lie close to hand: written in our own bodies. I think of the camel as mine. Of course he isn’t, but he lives in the field that runs alongside our rather bare, sun-blasted garden and sometimes in the dark he roars Camels are not indigenous to Cyprus. One-humped camels, dromedaries, were introduced by the Ottomans and used for loading and unloading ships. Was my camel so used – as heoccasionally is now, bringing salt from the near-by Salt Lake to Larnaca’s once-busy port?His ancestors must surely have been shipped from Egypt, reluctant emigrants crossing the Mediterranean to find work. To be used and possibly abused – though abusing a camel is not easy. They respond with loyalty and affection to good treatment, but are bad-tempered and dangerous when ill-treated. They will, however, work, work, work. My camel’s extraordinary body and character speak both of his own unique self and of the extreme conditions out of which he has evolved. More exactly adapted to the desert than any other creature, he needs water only every ten to fifteen days; his hump – contrary to popular belief – is not filled with water but with fat (up to 80 lbs of it); he has a double row of lashes to shield his eyes from sun and dust and he has huge, padded feet. Here in southern Cyprus the summer heat can be almost unendurably oppressive. We wait, stupefied, for the evening breeze to come to us out of Egypt. When it does, the camel and I lift our muzzles in relief, sniffing, he with that sideways grinding of his mighty, brown teeth. What I found was that they had exploited every possible small advantage, including, I’m afraid, taking advantage of less fortunate neighbours. The next generation – my grandparents – went on to live with the tribulations of life as poor itinerant labourers and the birth of nine children. Better times did come, when they settled in the house my mother had recalled and which they gradually filled with the signs of relative prosperity – but so too did the war with England, Ireland’s ambiguous independence, the bitter Civil War, depression and, finally, the emigration to England of all the Kavanaghs’ children save one, my Uncle Pat.

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Hunting something down – a mood, a landscape, a person – catching and arranging to make a shape, a story. What I like most about it is: freedom, solitude, words. woman who was to become my wife, but it still got me into trouble,” Castle explains. “It was she who persuaded me to apply to Warship (1975) – Lieutenant-Commander Peter Tremayne, officer commanding the Royal Navy submarine HMS Ovid in the episode "Under the Surface"

Laura Sauer is a collector of Jane Austen Films and film memorabilia. She also runs Austentation, a company that specializes in custom made Regency Accessories. insignificant personalities, on stage and was seen in the film King David (1985) as the commander of

Castle's first appearance was as Westmoreland on stage in Henry V on 5 June 1964, at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. He was 24 years old. His first Broadway theatre appearance was in February 1970 as "Jos" in the short-lived musical Georgy.