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luckat · 2008-10-22 08:15:04

Why is there nothing like this in Ireland? Surely we have plenty of political and other institutions that behave like angry Greek gods? http://www.slate.com/id/2154694/pagenum/all/

22-10-2008 8:15am

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luckat

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Why is there nothing like this in Ireland? Surely we have plenty of political and other institutions that behave like angry Greek gods?

http://www.slate.com/id/2154694/pagenum/all/

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#2 22-10-2008 8:19am

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Looking for these guys:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1007
?

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#3 22-10-2008 8:21am

luckat

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Thanks! Didn't know that was there!

But no, not looking for them. Just wondering why Irish writing seldom comes up to this - certainly not Irish TV writing.

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#4 22-10-2008 12:27pm

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luckat wrote: »

Just wondering why Irish writing seldom comes up to this

that's the most ridiculous statement ever made.
Joyce, O'Brien, Yeats, Beckett....... go read them and then come back and complain.
If you want to talk contemporary Irish writing - well the standard here is as bad as everywhere else worldwide and it won't get any better while people have TV's to entertain them.......
and if after all that you still want to complain, then pull a Ghandi and become the change you want to see in the world.....

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#5 22-10-2008 9:24pm

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There isn't a lot wrong with Irish writing now either el, Heaney, Anne Enright, John Banville, Patrick McCabe, etc, etc. There's nothing bad about Irish fiction atm, its just under publicised and not directed towards the small screen. Again no bad thing.

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