Top earning authors
Posted October 8, 2008 
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JK Rowling made £3million a week last year.
Amazing stuff …. I’m not greedy …. a million will do me …. 
My first purchase would be my Kerry hideaway!!
Posted October 8, 2008 Comments(2) He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
Posted August 18, 2008 Comments(2) 
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats
Nuala O’Faolain – New York Memorial
Posted June 4, 2008 Comments(2) Nuala Ó Faoláin (1942-2008)
A memorial tribute to the journalist and author Nuala O’Faolain will take place in New York on the 24th of June.
The Women’s Voices for Change website carries a tribute to Nuala.
Nuala O’Faolain – a light extinguished
Posted May 10, 2008 Comments(6) Nuala Ó Faoláin (1942-2008)
Journalist and author Nuala O’Faolain died last night at the Blackrock Hospice in Dublin.
She was 66 years old.
Irish Writers Online – a site worth visiting!
Posted May 6, 2008 Comments(6) 
Irish Writers Online is a concise bio-bibliographical dictionary of Irish writers (as described by the webmaster).
It’s a great resource site. It has an A to Z list of 541 writers.
Well worth a visit!
Happy Birthday Samuel!
Posted April 13, 2008 Comments(0) Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Samuel Beckett – author, critic and playwright. He won the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature.
He was born in Dublin on the 13th of April 1906.
Happy birthday and Rest In Peace Samuel.
Oscar Wilde – Irish playwright, novelist, poet and author
Posted April 3, 2008 Comments(0) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Oscar Wilde took a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry (famous for the ‘Marquess of Queensberry rules’ associated with boxing). The Marquess had accussed Wilde of being a sodomite.
The case opened on the 3rd of April 1895 but was withdrawn shortly afterwards. Unfortunately, for Wilde, it led to him being charged and convicted of gross indecency.
Wilde received a sentence of two years’ hard labour.
Wilde wrote the poem ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol‘ after his release from prison.
