Beers & Books CCCXXXV – Road to Brightcity

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Máirtaín O'Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)

Beers & Books CCCXXXIV – The Swan

The Swan

Guðbergur Bergsson (16 October 1932 – 4 September 2023)

Beers & Books CCCXXXIII – Cage Eleven

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Gerry Adams *6 October 1948

Long Kesh

Beers & Books CCCXXXII – George Bernard Shaw

Now that we have learned
to fly the air like birds,
swim under water like fish,
we lack one thing -
to learn to live on earth as human beings.

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 –2 November 1950)

Beers & Books CCCXXXI – The Family of Pascual Duarte

The Family of Pascual Duarte

Camilo José Cela (11 May 1916 – 17 January 2002)

Beers & Books CCCXXX – Arguing at the Crossroads

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Beers & Books CCCXXIX – A Message to the Irish People

"It is clear that it is not man
who has created the universe
- whether you believe in God or in gods
or deny any divine presence -
man cannot alter the laws
that govern the universe
without damaging it."

Seán MacBride ( 26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988)

Beers & Books CCCXXVIII – Bobby Sands

 Bobby Sands (9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981)

I rolled over again freezing and the snow came in the window on top of my blankets. Tiocfaidh ár lá' (Our day will come), I said to myself, Tiocfaidh ár lá. [Final diary entry]

 

Beers & Books CCCXXVII – History of Ireland

A Short History of Ireland (1952)

J. C. Beckett (8 February 1912 – 12 February 1996)

Beers & Books CCCXXV – A life in invisibility

A Life in Invisibility
(Women in Yemen)

Beers & Books CCCXXIV – Book of the South

Libro del Sur

André Heller *22 March 1947

Beers & Books CCCXXII – Fundamentalism against Women

The Nawal El Saadawi reader

Nawal El Sadawy (22 October 1931 – 21 March 2021)

Beers & Books CCCXXI – Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe (16 November 1930  – 21 March 2013

Beers & Books CCCXX – Small Anthology of Poetry in Spanish

This small anthology of poetry in Spanish
makes me looking forward to July 19th
when the following will be published:
Surveying a poetic continent.

 

Beers & Books CCCXIX – Eureka Street, Belfast

Eureka Street

Robert McLiam Wilson *24 February 1964

Beers & Books CCCXVIII– The Girl in the Wood

Stúlkan í skóginum,1992

Vigdís Grímsdóttir *15 August 1953

Beers & Books CCCXVII – Good Climate, Nice Neighbours

Stories
[engl.: Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants]

 

Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014)

Beers & Books CCCXVI – The Unfortunate Fursey

The Unfortunate Fursey

Mervyn Wall (1908 – 1997)

Beers & Books CCCXV – The Master

The Master

 Colm Tóibín *30 May 1955

Beers & Books CCCXIV – One Day in my Life

One Day in my Life

Bobby Sands (9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981)