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Novelist, poet, short-storyist, playwright, also writes as Dara Kavanagh

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A Novel Approach with David Butler - Irish Writers Centre Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Writing courses, literary events, professional development for writers, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, playwriting.

New Year's Resolution?
Make 2024 the year you finally get that novel down on paper.
Shares welcome!
irishwriterscentre.ie/.../a-novel-...
A Novel Approach with David Butler - Irish Writers Centre (online)

03.01.2024 12:38 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It's official!
Jabberwock has "an ingenious plot".
So says the TLS 🥂

14.12.2023 11:03 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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If any of you lovely people who picked up a copy of 'Jabberwock' would like to put up a few stars and/or words on Goodreads, it'd be much appreciated!

12.12.2023 15:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm delighted with this latest detailed and hugely empathetic 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 review of 'Jabberwock'

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

02.12.2023 15:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lovely to see the poems of Blackrock Sequence, illustrated and screen-printed by my brother Jim, on display in Cambridge's iconic @FitzMuseum_UK

01.12.2023 15:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lovely to find your novel has been endorsed by a Booker Award winner, not to mention a true gent.

27.11.2023 13:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice to have a place on the grown-ups' table 🙃

24.11.2023 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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'Jabberwock' rubbing shoulders with some very fine company on Hodges Figgis' Contemporary Irish Voices table

Dedalus Books Ltd

24.11.2023 11:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Is cúis áthais agus bróid dom go bhfuil mo dhán seo a leanas foilsithe san iris @Channel_LitMag
Táim ag tnúth leis an seoladh leabhar Dé Domhnaigh i gCaisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath mar chuid den @DublinBookFest

09.11.2023 14:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Encouraging words...

07.11.2023 11:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Write a book about selecting posh wine...it might be a best cellar 🍷

05.11.2023 19:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"...charmingly digressive..."
Latest review of Jabberwock, folks 😜📚

literaryreview.co.uk/dateline-cha...

05.11.2023 18:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Now, it chanced that in a corner of the Palace Bar there was a chess-game proceeding, and Hackett being an aficionado of the game and ever afflicted with a Pangúr Bán mentality, his concentration flitted between the article in his hands, the chess-game in the mirror..."

28.10.2023 17:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Off to London next week to unleash verbal outrage on the capital 📚

28.10.2023 09:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Das sind wunderbare Neuigkeiten..!

27.10.2023 13:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Irish literary journals 2023/2024 Last year, I did a list of the literary journals active in Ireland to the best of my knowledge. I was very surprised at how popular the post was - to date, it's easily the most-visited post on my blog...

New blog post: a list of Irish literary journals - there are so many!

26.10.2023 08:40 — 👍 67    🔁 40    💬 8    📌 3
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There's an autumnal feel to the collection...📚

26.10.2023 11:03 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And then there's 'brooch'

25.10.2023 22:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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