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24/02/2024

30,000 people and rising all the time. How can we bear this and go about our lives?

23/02/2024

The Ennis Book Club Festival kicks off next weekend, 1st-3rd March 2024. Tickets are selling fast but there's still time to book yours. Come and see Claire Kilroy, Theo Dorgan, Rebecca Makkai, Darragh McKeon, Paula Meehan, Denise Mina, Mike McCormack, Una Mannion, John Lillis, Rónán Ó Snodaigh, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Andrea Mara, Dani Gill, Rónán Hession, Conal Creedon, Belinda McKeon, Elaine Howley, Siobhán Peoples, Michael McCaughan and many more...

12/02/2024

28,000 people dead and the figure keeps rising. That’s children, mothers, fathers, grandparents. All ages, all with different experiences of life. Lives extinguished in the most barbaric of ways. How can we stand to see this?

24/01/2024

Goodbye to Chania, Crete. Farewell to our beloved sister. Love to you always, dear Michelle.
The part of life
devoted to contemplation
was at odds with the part
committed to action.

Fall was approaching.
But I remember
it was always approaching
once school ended.

Life, my sister said,
is like a torch passed now
from the body to the mind.
Sadly, she went on, the mind is not
there to receive it.

The sun was setting.
Ah, the torch, she said.
It has gone out, I believe.
Our best hope is that it’s flickering,
fort/da, fort/da, like little Ernst
throwing his toy over the side of his crib
and then pulling it back. It’s too bad,
she said, there are no children here.
We could learn from them, as Freud did.

We would sometimes sit
on benches outside the dining room.
The smell of leaves burning.

Old people and fire, she said.
Not a good thing. They burn their houses down.

How heavy my mind is,
filled with the past.
Is there enough room for the world to pe*****te?
It must go somewhere, it cannot simply sit on the surface —

Stars gleaming over the water.
The leaves piled, waiting to be lit.

Insight, my sister said.
Now it is here.
But hard to see in the darkness.

You must find your footing
before you put your weight on it.
- Louise Glück

30/12/2023

Everything is wrong with what is happening in Gaza. Everything. Death and destruction, generations of families wiped out and entire neighbourhoods flattened. Annihilation. What kind of life is this? How much longer?

29/12/2023

Reading Rapture’s Road, the new poetry collection by these days and it’s a full body experience. Tender, delicate and striking, each poem trails a lyrical truth in its wake. It’s bound to be one of the books of 2024.

23/12/2023

Every day we say the same thing. The killing has to stop. Where is our humanity if we don’t see this?

21/12/2023

There is nothing else to say but this, every day and from now on until it happens. Ceasefire now. Ceasefire now. Ceasefire now.

30/11/2023

The sheer beauty of his songs, their tender and bruised hearts, the wit and imagination that soared and took us with it. Thank you, Shane McGowan. It was a deep pleasure to receive your gift. 💔

15/11/2023

It is truly terrible to live through these times, aware of the killing and the suffering of the Palestinian people as it goes on and on without respite. We march, we pray, we donate, we hope. For what? A fraction of humanity to show through the awful facade? A glimmer of recognition that this is no way to treat our fellow humans? I am bereft.

11/11/2023

A great evening at the launch of this literary journal. Sterling work by all, great readings, more than a few laughs and excellent company. Maith sibh go léir.

05/11/2023

Looking forward to lots more entries for our new short story comp. A shout out to our friends, please share & retweet, so we can get the word out far and wide. .kennedyy .hegarty.50 .ni.ghriofa

01/11/2023

Exciting news coming down the line from Ennis Book Club Festival. We can’t wait to share our plan for next year’s festival with you all.

26/10/2023

The sea, oh the sea. Western skies.

25/10/2023

Great haul from . This week is taken care of.

19/10/2023

Cannot wait.

13/10/2023

Vita Nova
BY LOUISE GLÜCK

You saved me, you should remember me.

The spring of the year; young men buying tickets for the ferryboats.
Laughter, because the air is full of apple blossoms.

When I woke up, I realized I was capable of the same feeling.

I remember sounds like that from my childhood,
laughter for no cause, simply because the world is beautiful,
something like that.

Lugano. Tables under the apple trees.
Deckhands raising and lowering the colored flags.
And by the lake’s edge, a young man throws his hat into the water;
perhaps his sweetheart has accepted him.

Crucial
sounds or gestures like
a track laid down before the larger themes

and then unused, buried.

Islands in the distance. My mother
holding out a plate of little cakes—

as far as I remember, changed
in no detail, the moment
vivid, intact, having never been
exposed to light, so that I woke elated, at my age
hungry for life, utterly confident—

By the tables, patches of new grass, the pale green
pieced into the dark existing ground.

Surely spring has been returned to me, this time
not as a lover but a messenger of death, yet
it is still spring, it is still meant tenderly.

07/10/2023

What a great collection of stories this is by . I’m utterly engaged by all his characters and lost in their worlds.

29/09/2023

A bit of a haul from our local free library and some deliveries of new books. It’s shaping up well, this weekend.

28/09/2023

He ain’t messing around…

08/09/2023

World of wonder.

29/08/2023

At the rising of the moon.

28/08/2023

Malaga reading swag.

26/07/2023

For her promise and her beauty and her singing and her honesty and her passion and her suffering and her love, we salute Sinéad O’Connor. You were a jewel among us. May peace be yours.

20/06/2023

How wonderful this book of short stories is. A model of clarity and apparent simplicity wrapped in deep empathy and sadness. Everyone, get a copy if you can. Bravo, Dan Chaon

17/06/2023

Reading time in Barcelona. Great diversity and some wonderful writing here. Should keep me going for a day or two.

27/05/2023

Night dreaming magic

24/05/2023

Cows just want to cow.

10/05/2023

Seems like only yesterday we came to the end of Ennis Book Club Festival 2023. But here I am, diving deep into the well again for 2024. Happy to be so engaged. .ie

03/05/2023

It was so enjoyable to talk with Yemi Bamiro today at our documentary programme. He’s a generous and warm individual with great stories about making Fight the Power - How Hip Hop Changed the World. Brilliant.

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Phoenix Films is a production company based in Ireland. Storytelling is key to everything we do. We make documentaries and factual content for a wide and varied client base and audience. We take ideas and make them into films, short and long, ambitious and creative, broadcast and online. Run by Martina Durac & Julien Behal, the company is producing a slate of projects in different genres, with national and international partners. The key objective is to create content that excites our interest and draws viewers in. Martina has many years experience as a creator, director and producer of documentary films & factual programming on a wide variety of subjects and has lectured widely on film making. Julien Behal is a director and producer whose award-winning work as a photo-journalist and one of Ireland’s leading photographers has taken him all around the world.