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The writer’s voice

By TF | Published: July 27, 2010
I have of late come across a number of recordings of authors reading their work and thought it prudent to gather the ones that interest me in one spot – for myself as much as anybody else. Discussions of how an author sounds are inevitable. But I would encourage listeners to take the time [...]
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Mangan’s sister

By TF | Published: October 20, 2009
When the short days of winter came dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung [...]
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Letter from Bernard Shaw to Sylvia Beach

By TF | Published: August 27, 2009
Dear Madam, I have read fragments of Ulysses in its serial form. It is a revolting record of a disgusting phase of civilization, but it is a truthful one; and I should like to put a cordon round Dublin; round up every male person in it between the ages of 15 and 30; force them to [...]
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Bloomsday

By TF | Published: June 16, 2009
To celebrate Bloomsday for 2009, an extract: White horses with white frontlet plumes came round the Rotunda corner, galloping. A tiny coffin flashed by. In a hurry to bury. A mourning coach. Unmarried. Black for the married. Piebald for bachelors. Dun for a nun. – Sad, Martin Cunningham said. A child. A dwarf’s face mauve and wrinkled like [...]
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