Beers & Books CCXCI – Brendan Behan 100

Borstal Boy,
The Hostage and other plays,
Confessions of an Irish Rebel

Brendan Behan (9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964)

The Quare Fellow

Beers & Books CCXC – Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Hurskas kurjuus (1919)
Should be translated a Pious Misery

Frans Eemil Sillanpää (16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964)

Beers & Books CCLXXXIX – The Road to Brightcity

Nine stories, translated by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc,
in 1981 made accessible for the first time
to an English speaking readership
exquisite masterpieces of Ó Cadhain's writings.

 

Máirtín O'Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) 

Mo(o)nday Poetry

Colmena
iVivimos en celdas
de cristal,
en colmena de aire!
Nos besamos a través
de cristal.
iMaravillosa cárcel,
cuya puerta
es la luna!
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Beehive
We live in cells
of crystal
in a beehive of air!
We are kissing each other
through crystal.*
Wonderful prison,
the door of which
is the moon!

* cristal: glass, crystal, water (poetical)

Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936)

Beers & Books CCLXXXVIII – An Eochair / The Key

A mixture of kafka-esque satire, farce, black comedy and tragedy.

Máirtín O'Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)

Saturday Night Music – Gulda & Hancock

Friedrich Gulda (16 May 1930 – 27 January 2000)

Herbie Hancock *12 April 1940

Beers & Books CCLXXXVII – Die Asche des Tages

I'd suggest: The Ash of the Day

Máirtín O'Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)

 

Our Civilisation

"Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence."

James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

Beers & Books CCLXXXVI – Diary of a Bookseller

Thursday, 24 April
An elderly customer told me
that her book club's next book was Dracula,
but she could not remember what he'd written.

 

Saturday Night Music – Gulda plays Mozart

 

Friedrich Gulda (16 May 1930 – 27 January 2000)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) 

Beers & Books CCLXXXV – English Short Stories

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Beers & Books CCLXXXIV – Irish Stories

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Beers & Books CCLVXXXIII – Irish Short Stories

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