Reviews

Jeffrey Dudgeon Roger Casement: Imperialist,Rebel, Revolutionary, by Seamas O’Siochain, Lilliput Press, 656 pp, ISBN: 978-1843510215 Seamas O’Siochain has become one of the select band to have written two or more books on Roger Casement. He joins Roger Sawyer, the doyen of Casement authors, and Angus Mitchell in that pantheon,along with Herbert Mackey, the 1950s sanctifier. He, however, was more of a pamphleteer. Such frequency illustrates the abiding fascination that Casement excites.... [more>

  DANCING WITH THE MINOTAUR Theatre – 5th May 2008 at 15:00 (60 mins)     The start of a free festival of New Irish Writing on every weekend during the Festival in The George at 3pm. Dancing With The Minotaur’... [more>

Title: Roger Casement: Imperialist, Rebel, Revolutionary Author: Seamas O’Siochain Price:  from £21 at Amazon ISBN: 978 1 84351 021 5 Versions: hb 234 x 156 mm/680pp Publication Date: January 2008 Drawing on a trove of official and personal sources, O Siochain shows how what began as an ordinary career in the British consular... [more>

Gay’s The WorD Top-11 LESBIAN Books of 2007 • Fair Play Tove Jansson. Sort Of Books. 6.99The writer and artist Tove Jansson (1914 2001) is best known as the creator of the Moomin Stories, which have been published in thirty-five languages. However, from 1968, she turned her attention to writing for adults. Fair Play was... [more>

Top-10 Books of 2007 1. Skin Lane Neil Bartlett. Serpent’s Tail. 10.99 Fiction Set in 60s London, this is the story of a quiet self-controlled man who becomes consumed by a terrifying dream. In hushed confident prose Bartlett has created vivid tale of sexual obsession and subtle darkness. Skin Lane will drawn you in like... [more>

The rather glossy Programme for the LGSO (London Gay Symphony Orchestra) outing on (Sun., Feb 17) entitled the affair a Farewell to Winter Concert. I managed to arrive late – again – and missed the first item, Georges Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody in A major (the first of two). I have never really taken to Enescu, but I would have quite... [more>

Paul Robinson University of Chicago Press 11.50 I bought this book (in Gay’s the Word), because it appeared to indicate a Gay intellectual life in the USA’something we don’t really have in GB ‘ though there probably is one in Ireland. It’s not GtW’s fault that I was sorely disappointed. So disappointed that... [more>

The LGSO (London Gay Symphony Orchestra)’s Summer Concert (Sunday, 8th July, 2007) consisted of three works by Dmitri Dmitrivich Shostakovitch, it being his hundredth birthday year. The works were, the Festive Overture, the Second Piano Concerto and the Tenth Symphony. The conductor, Simon Bowler’s handling of the Overture almost convinced... [more>

The Corner Boys Geoffrey Beattie Victor Gollancz 16.99 Geoffrey Beattie is a media psychologist, Manchester University Professor of Psychology, he is noted for telling Big Brother viewers they are not mentally disordered watching it. Having finished this book (emphatically... [more>

The question should really be ‘does the telly’ ‘ or at least, the people who run telly ‘ ‘hate ballet?’ Christmas Day 2007 showed a ‘feast’ of classical ballet. One ‘course’ started on BBC1 with a prog entitled The Magic of Romeo and Juliet, 3.55pm followed half an hour later by Romeo and... [more>

Frederico Garcia Lorca Theatre Royal, Stratford East The above was claimed to be about homosexuality, especially homosexuality in a sexually and socially repressed society. This may be what led the director of the piece to urge on his cast what was basically a great deal of camping about by many players. At one point an Emperor-figure one part... [more>