Failing her
Think Global, act local. COVID has taught us we can make a difference when the curve upwards puts us in danger – individually and globally. Can we transfer that lesson to climate change? My generation sought to increase awareness of…
Margo Gorman
Writing ~ Re-connecting
Margo Gorman
Writing ~ Re-connecting
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Press interviews
Three interviews (1) Victorina Press about my novel, Michel-Michelle (15min) (2) Gay Community News about gay activism with Doctor Mary McAuliffe of University College Dublin (1hr) (3) Arts House, ocean fm radio with Harry Keaney (10mins) about Michel-Michelle and Bone…
Writing
The Tír Connaill writers’ group has helped me cope with COVID time. We have gone from strength to strength by mixing email edits with Zoom meetings. The collective feedback edits, develops, encourages and inspires us all on to greater efforts.…
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Cocooning
I long ago left my chrysalis to butterfly my way around the world. Now the government asks me to wrap myself in silk and deny the reality of the swift shortening of life expectancy for all of us in this…
other
My novel Michel-Michelle arrived in the post to-day ready for readers at the launch in Irish Writers Centre on 5th March at 6.30pm. I am reminded that diversity flows through the imagination shared between reader and writer. As a reader,…
Michel-Michelle
Launch Invitation 5th March Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, 6.30pm Axel, the main character in my novel, Michel-Michelle, is an architect in Lille and the son of „three mothers“ – Amelia, his birth mother, Naomi, her partner and Michelle, Axel’s transgender…
Imagine Belfast 24th March
Borders
Other-eyes-perspective on border technologies from Berlin. Can 2020 take us beyond the divisive rhetoric of Brexit? Thanks to Sabine and Marcus for the ground level view of the Donegal border in 2019. They highlight the proposal to monitor Ireland’s 208…
Hope
„The people united will never be defeated. “ Is unity in diversity possible without the snakes and ladders of power and corruption? Thanks for the hopeful inspiration from this song, resurrected in October 2019 in Chile. I will store it…