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The Irish freedom questions at the heart of my novel ‘Éilis from the Flats’ - The Irish freedom questions at the heart of my novel Éilis from the Flats (‘Éilis from the Flats’ is an existential and psychological thriller. It is volume one of ‘The Good Friday Sting’ hexalogy) ‘Éilis from the Flats’ is the opposite of a right-wing Catholic tract The ancient idea of personal guilt (in ancient times … 
Why all the things you have been told about Kierkegaard are wrong - Celebrating Søren Kierkegaard’s birthday – 5th of May, 1813 For a change I’m simply going to shoot from the hip, as that wonderful North American saying has it, and tell you some things about Denmark’s only world renowned thinker without any detailed referencing. Søren Kierkegaard preferred to be called a thinker, rather than a … 
Kierkegaard’s vision of heaven - ‘For, what is it to be, and to want to be, a sovereign individual?’ – Søren Kierkegaard This is not about whether you believe in God, or are a Muslim, a Jew, a Hindu, a Buddhist or a Christian. It is primarily about thinking outside the box of human time – something we can all … 
The Irish Times takes me and my novel ‘Éilis from the flats’ seriously – well done. - In 1977, Padraic Fiacc – perhaps the greatest urban poet ever to come out of Belfast in our modern times, wrote a remarkable poem called ‘An attempt on his life’ *. Fiacc didn’t just write about the Irish war. For example, he was a great poet of myth, and myth busting also, but he … 
How I was vanished from my own book - (As we prepare to celebrate the UN’s International Translation Day on September 30th, this article on the – still prevailing – abysmal treatment of literary translators has been sent to three national representatives at the UN: Geraldine Byrne Nason (Ireland); Martin Bille Hermann (Denmark) and Karel van Oosterom (Netherlands). All three countries are relevant to … 
The infallible human artist test - Kierkegaard taking his daily menneskebad – a people bath * If you were there, or saw the above scene at a gallery or in a movie, you might not remember the date, time or even exact place, but you will forever recollect the scene. Bring it to life again and again as it returns to … 
New York Review of Books reviews ‘A Fortunate Man’ - The Danish Tolstoy Henrik Pontoppidan rules over the province of Danish letters with a grey-bearded authority akin to Leo Tolstoy’s or Henry James’s. The author of three sweeping epics,Det Fortjættede Land (The Promised Land, 1891–1895), Lykke-Per (A Fortunate Man, 1898–1904), and De Dødes Rige (The Kingdom of the Dead, 1912–1916), he was awarded …
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