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Tag Archives: ireland
The Brothers’ Lot: $10 Celebratory price til June 31
From:Akashic Books: The Brothers’ Lot is a semifinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. To celebrate we are offering a special discounted price of $10 (including shipping within the U.S.) from May 21 – June 30, 2012. Click here: … Continue reading
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VCU Cabell First Novel award
Delighted to find out that The Brothers Lot is a semifinalist for the 2012 Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell first Novel Award. I had the pleasure of reading with Justin Torres at the Brooklyn Book Festival last year so I … Continue reading
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Tagged books, literature, ireland, novels, akashic, akashic books, The Brothers' Lot, Kevin Holohan, Dublin, Venerabale Saorseach O'Rahilly, Brothers of Godly Coercion, Virginia Commonwealth UIniversity, VCA Cabell First Novel Award, Show Me Good Land, Shonna Milliken Humphrey, A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism, Peter Mountford, The Book of Want, Daniel Olivas, This Burns My Heart, Samuel Park, and yet they were happy, Helen Phillips, The Fates Will Find Their Way, Hannah Pittard, The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock, Along the Watchtower, Constance Squires, We the Animals, Justin Torres
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Kevin Holohan & Honor Molloy, Brooklyn Central Library March 18
Sunday March 18, 1:30 pm Honor Molloy and Kevin Holohan will read from Smarty Girl and The Brothers’ Lot respectively and then concurrently, coordinatedly, contemporaneously and cooperatively they will read together excerpts from both books in a hitherto unseen feat … Continue reading
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So, all the snakes are gone, the parade is over, then what?
When the shamrockery is all done, the green tinted beer has gone flat and the strains of puzzling bagpipe music have died away, you can get a taste of an Ireland that is a little more riverrun than Riverdance, more … Continue reading
New York Irish Arts Reviews The Brothers’ Lot
Delighted with this review by Michelle Woods on New York Irish Arts. Full review at link below. Excerpts below that. http://newyorkirisharts.blogspot.com/2011/11/kevin-holohans-brothers-lot-michelle.html Set in the Brothers of Godly Coercion for Young Boys of Meager Means, where Father Boland is convinced that … Continue reading
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Tagged books, literature, ireland, novels, writing, akashic, akashic books, The Brothers' Lot, Kevin Holohan, reviews, No Exit Press, Dublin, Venerabale Saorseach O'Rahilly, Brothers of Godly Coercion, christian brothers abuse, New York Irish Arts, Michele Woods
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Reading at the PEN Literary Tasting November 17
Curiously enough the third Thursday of November is Venerable Saorseach O’Rahilly Day so I will have to dust off a piece of the Biography in honor of the day that is in it. Like this bit maybe http://youtu.be/tEqDLuWuFvc Anyway here … Continue reading
Radio Interview with Sean Rocks, Arena RTE Radio 1
It has taken me a while to get used to the sound of my own voice on “the wireless” but have finally got to the point where I am happy to put this out here. Thanks to Sean Rocks for … Continue reading
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The Brothers Reviewed at Staged Reaction
Thanks to Barry Houlihan (no relation) for this thoughtful review at Staged Reaction http://stagedreaction.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/the-brothers-lot-a-novel-by-kevin-holohan/ “The Brothers’ Lot” – a novel by Kevin Holohan 07 Oct “For all the kids who never got a chance to answer back” reads the dedication in … Continue reading
Delighted to get reviewed in The Guardian
Lovely to get reviewed in the Guardian, home of the tremendous cartoonist Steve Bell and my staple read for donkey’s years . http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/04/brothers-lot-kevin-holohan-review The Godly Coercion School for Young Boys of Meagre Means is a grimly repressive religious institution where young Dublin … Continue reading
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