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Eugene McCabe on Eileen Battersby

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  • 29-03-2011 9:55am
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    Bruce7
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    From a letter in today's Irish Times:
    We were all privileged to read Ms Battersby’s ghost story in The Irish TimesMagazine a few months ago. It was a revelation. Sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, it was the worst piece of creative writing I have ever read in a long life of reading. Truly. Stunningly bad. I have used it in a workshop as an example of how to avoid writing “Sh*te and onions”. That this person has the temerity to sit in negative judgment on one of the great masters of Irish writing should not pass without comment

    Has anybody read this ghost story or got a link to it?


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    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,190 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    This kind of thing is not suitable for this forum. I'm locking this until I find a suitable place for it.


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