The Flying Book Club

25/10/2012

Almost into the Halloween Madness. Have you booked for Darker Dublin - our terrifically scary evening of words and music at St Werburgh's? All Souls Nigh as you've never experienced it before! See www.entertainment.i/?darkerdublin/ for details.

Go on - the music will be haunting, beautiful and melancholy - truly memorable, and the stories will thrill or chill you . . .

Join us in this wonderful ancient church for a night to remember!

19/10/2012

Temple Bar Traders & The Flying Book Club Presents

DARKER DUBLIN

DARKER DUBLIN will be an evening of haunting performance and chilling music exploring our city’s Gothic Writing.
Spook yourself on All Soul’s Night with samples of Dublin’s darker writing – with eerie music, chant and candles in the ancient and atmospheric St Werburgh’s Church.
DARKER DUBLIN includes;
A Talk on Gothic Writing and music from The Crux Vocal Ensemble with Natalia Astramowicz-McGough, saxophone and David O'Shea, organ.

Performances from local Gothic Writing including; W.B. Yeats and Sheridan Le Fanu
Join us for a truly atmospheric encounter with our city’s Gothic past in a truly unique setting.

Tickets: http://entertainment.ticketsolve.com/shows/873486839/events
Location: Saint Werburgh's Church, Werburgh Street, Dublin 8
Date: 02 November 2012 at 8.00pm (doors open 7.30pm)
For more information: http: //www.visit-templebar com/events

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29/06/2012

We're coming into the season when that odd category 'Holiday Reading' is much discussed. What's your nomination for a real escapist treat, a stimulating book of ideas or an indulgent, amusing caper? Share your choices with us. . .

21/06/2012

Ok - c'mon all you recent Feel The Fear graduates - tell us how you're getting on with Reading It Anyway (Ulysses)! Wonderful, is it not? Remember - its laced with parody and its meant to be funny too! Enjoy!

18/06/2012

Wow! What a weekend! Wonderful sessions on James Joyce's Ulysses. Very glad to see so many readers! The dressing up is fun - the singing uplifting and amusing but you can't beat the great experience of reading the books. So, really pleased to see so many Chester Beatty Library members - and all the good readers of Dalkey too.

See you all again soon, we hope.

14/06/2012

Ulysses - not read it? can't read it! Feel The Fear And Read It Anyway sessions - Dalkey Book Festival Friday and Saturday. Check it out!

08/06/2012

If you already love his writing, or if you've not yet read him the great German writer W.G. Sebald is the subject of our session, sponsored by The Goethe Institut at the Dublin Writers festival tomorrow at 1:30. Sebald is a unique and compelling writer. Documentary by Grant Gee - panel discussion on the writing of one of the most original and brilliant writers of recent time. Don't miss it!

06/06/2012

Do you think James Joyce's Ulysses is not for you - its for the professors, the scholars, the die-hard literati, or just for folk who like dressing up? Wrong! its for everyone - for the ordinary person - for all of us. Come and find out how Ulysses is for you . . and you . . .you. Its a great humane and wise work - very funny too. written for all of us. On Bloomsday, Teachers Club at 11:00 AM join us as we reclaim this wonderful book for everyone.

06/06/2012

Back by popular demand our Feel The Fear and Read It Anyway sessions! Our subject text is James Joyce's wonderful Ulysses. You can join us for a fun session as part of the Dalkey Book Festival on Friday 15th at 4:00 or Saturday 16th June at 1:45. Both events are in The magpies Inn, Colimore Road.

Has this book baffled you? Have you tried to read it and given up? Does its complexity confuse you? Let us take you into this great and often very funny book. You’ll Feel the Fear, but you'll read it anyway . . .

08/05/2012

Re-reading all of W.G. Sebald's wonderful writing in prep for the Dublin Writer's Festival next month. Starting with the great Rings of Saturn. If you have not red his work you've a great treat in store. . . Go for it!

24/04/2012

Have any of you had a look at the IMPAC shortlist for 2012?
We've started with Jaun Gabriel Vasquez's 'The Secret History of Costaguana - a wonderful, clever, knowing and often funny book. So far, so brilliant!

24/04/2012

OK - we're puzzled! Orhan Pamuk will open his Museum of Innocence this week, a house purporting to belong to his character Kemal in the novel of the same name - including a panel filled with 4,213 cigarette butts the character ostensibly smoked! Is this a 'truly original idea' as The Guardian claim, or is there a less than innocent agenda here? What think ye?