Review of You on Melusine Blog
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by Rachel J. Fenton
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Ní Chonchúir's skill is her ability to subvert and to break down labels, racism and sexism included, into their core traits and to show they are seamless, as an estuary.
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You can read it read it at melusineblog.blogspot.com.
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Review of You in the Irish Examiner
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by Sue Leonard
‘The novel flows beautifully and is understated in tone...This gem is sure to win her further acclaim. Nuala Ní Chonchúir is a writer to watch.'
You can read it online at: www.irishexaminer.com
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Review of Nude in Verbal 28
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Naked and Nude
Odd dignity and absolute conviction, says Sean McMahon
‘The two words have subtle semantic differences; ‘nude’, for example, can be a noun. Several of these 19 stories are literally about nudes as paintings: expatiations on François Boucher’s naughty L’Odalisque, showing the deliberately provocative pose of his wife, copied by the King’s mistress, Louisa O’Murphy, herself from Cork, in herpicture, the themes of ‘Madonna Irlanda’ and ‘Madamoiselle O’Murphy’, Le Déjeunersur l’Herbe by Édouard Manet, with one only nude woman in clothed company in ‘Ekphrasis’ and others...'
Read more in Verbal 28.
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Review of Nude in the Irish Times
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Body and soul laid bare
by Katie Donovan in the Irish Times (10/10/2009)
‘EROTIC, YES, BUT also deceptive, funny, anticlimactic. Nuala Ní Chonchúir’s new collection of stories revolves around the theme of the unclothed body. Here is the nude not only as depicted in art but also in other contexts where there is an observer prepared to frame a subject with love, obsession or delusion...'
Read on at irishtimes.com.
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interview on Arena on RTE
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Interview on Arena
Nuala was interviewed by Sean Rocks on RTE radio one's Arena show on 16th September.
Listen to it here.
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Interview on Nik's Blog August 2009
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Who is it for? Do you have an audience or reader in mind?
I never have an audience in mind, no 'ideal reader' but I hope readers of contemporary literary fiction will like it. Also art lovers and artists. If all the people who loved
Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring bought and read it that would be cool too. I just know they’d enjoy it!!...
Go to nikperring.blogspot.com for more.
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Review on She Is Too Fond of Books, May 200
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She Is Too Fond of Books
'One of the greatest delights of this collection are the many voices the author channels. One such striking perspective is in I, Caroline.
This is the story of Caroline Crachami (nee Fogle), a young woman not two-feet tall. Caroline’s parents sold her for twenty pounds to a 'doctor' who exhibited her until the time of her death...
Go to www.sheistoofondofbooks.com to read more.
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Connacht Tribune - 10/04/2009 - In Profile
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Review of Marks in The Dubliner
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Art in Action
This is the last such publication for a while as editor Declan Meade informed us mournfully at the launch.
The Arts Council funding without which this handsome but entirely non-commercial collaboration between
literary magazine the Stinging Fly and art magazine Circa could not have happened was cut to ribbons in Budget 2009.
Unlike OAPs, artists don’t have the ear or the sympathy of the Irish people...
Read it all at The Dubliner
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My Literary Top 10
1 Best short story I’ve ever read:
VERY hard to pick one, but I’ll go for ‘Ida Y Vuelta’ in Manuel Muñoz’s new collection The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue. A tender, heart-aching story of gay love and (minor) betrayal in a small, Mexican-American neighbourhood in California. Masterful!...
go to pulp.net to read it all.
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