Daily Archives: March 1, 2010

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Daily Links 01/03/2010

Review: An Irish Voice by Niall O’Dowd
NIall was on Pat Kenny Monday 1st March as well. Sounds like a fine read!
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Eddie Lenihan documentary on TG4
Eddie Lenihan is an amazing character
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March 11th: Irish PEN event on non-fiction
Worth going to this methinks!
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Sports History – Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey 1896-1924
Fine review by excellent Ger Siggins
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Bookshops going Bust
Interesting post from Barbara Smith on the Hughes demise!
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Author storms children’s market
AJ will be speaking at The One Stop Self Publishing Conference in October
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Introducing The One Stop Self Publishing Conference – 16th October 2010
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Open Mikes and Places to hear Spoken Word
Interesting list of open mics and spoken word events!
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Jailhouse graffiti with a story to tell
A review of Liberties’ recent book on the graffiti in Kilmainham Jail.
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The writer responds
Colm Toibin responds to readers queries at the Irish TImes Book Club!
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Happy birthday, Mr Murphy
Interesting note on Tom Murphy!
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Hughes & Hughes: It’s Anything But Simple
Nice round up of some of the difficulties a Bricks and Mortar chain faces (if I do say so myself).
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Necessary ‘nagging’ in the fight for true equality
The Equality Illusion: The truth about women and men todayBy Kat Banyard Faber and Faber, 285pp, £12.99 Read more…

The Irish publisher whose printed pages keep turning in pace with history
The Captain sure was innovative!
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Seizing the Means of Production – Part 3
An excellent cap to an amazing series!
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Irish Book Awards "Unaffected" By Hughes & Hughes Collapse

Irish Book Awards LogoThe Irish Book Awards will be unaffected by the collapse of Hughes & Hughes according to IBA administrator, Bert Wright. The bookshop chain, which entered receivership on Friday 26th February, had been one of the event’s sponsors.

A new headline sponsor for the Awards will be announced later this year.

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Hughes & Hughes: Monday Morning Catch-Up

Hughes & Hughes, the second largest Irish bookshop chain, went into receivership on Friday. Irish Publishing News covered the story here.

Despite notice that all stores had been closed, the DAA confirmed that the airport stores remained open. That story was covered here.

The Sunday Business Post covered speculation that WH Smith might be seeking to acquire the Airport outlets and so did Irish Publishing News.

Martin Black, Eason O’Connell Street (Dublin) Manager, spoke on RTE’s The Marian Finucane Show on Sunday and Irish Publishing News covered what he said.