ISLAND launch and benefit gig
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Thursday January 25, 2007 18:04
by SWM - PR - Small World Media
ISLAND journal to be launched in Cork
ISLAND, the new quarterly journal, will be launched in February at a benefit gig to be announced. Specialising in the themes culture and commuity, the first issue of ISLAND features an interview with Irish band Kíla, a story about a spooky freight airline that lands at Shannon, an interview with community minister Eamon Ó Cuív, pieces on the last of the volunteers plus verse, short fiction, book reviews and essays.
The contents are:
DONALD MAHONEY talks to Rónán O Snodaigh and Eoin Dillon about their solo work and profiles Kíla
DEIRDRE CLANCY listens to her 105-year-old grandfather Sean talk about his part in the war of independence and DERRY CHAMBERS has a word with 104 year old Dan Keating, who was on the other side to Sean Clancy during the civil war
CD STELZER on a spooky airline that does business at Shannon and Prestwich
MIKE WAGSTAFF takes a look at the work of Media Lens to find out why some
journalists hate them
MAGGIE RONAYNE on grassroots organising and that revolution in Venezuela
ROBERT ALLEN finds out why Indaver’s John Ahern is desperate to get Linda Fitzpatrick to talk to hm
DEIRDRE CLANCY explains why Eva Gore-Booth was ahead of her time with her
pacifist vegetarian feminist libertarian stance
MARTINA QUINN talks to Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Minister Éamon Ó Cuív about the radical changes he is making to improve the lives of rural and urban communities
ERIK VALENCIC continues east of hell
CHRIS LAWLOR has more on Dunlavin’s history
PETRA MADILL wonders why we get the painters in
MAGGIE RONAYNE on the community opposition to the Ilisu dam in the Kurdish region of Turkey
MARTINA QUINN goes to Fettercairn to see three young trainee jockeys
ROBERT ALLEN talks to Gary Cusack about Mulligans’ reputation as the Home of the Pint
MARTINA QUINN on the men who are waiting to die
AYNIA BRENNAN takes a close look at nature
JIM PAGE Story of a Song: Hiroshima Nagasaka Russian Roulette
+ fiction by JOHN KELLY
+ poetry by JOHN O’LEARY
+ review of books by Michael Kirby, Roddy Doyle, Liam Leonard, Che Guevara,
Fidel Castro, Emiliano Zapata, Philip Roth and Dilip Hiro
ISLAND can be ordered from Small World Media, Knocknaquirk, Magheramore, Co Wicklow, or by emailing islandeditorial@googlemail.com or ringing Robert on 087 955 1504.
Subscriptions are €40 for 4 issues, postage and packaging inclusive.
Individual copies are €9.95 plus postage and packaging. Cheques are payable to Small World Media