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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">This is my first music review for the Newsletter/Blog. I’ve avoided this for a long time. I feel awkward passing comment on the work of my peers and would rather believe that I long ago left the world of job reviews behind. But I think it’s only fair that when I find a new work that is truly exciting to me I share that, and help spread the word.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">A few years ago I was learning the sean nós song ‘Bean Dubh an Ghleanna’ and there was a section of it that was giving me trouble - the words and music were battling each other and I was getting baffled — most songs will start easing into their shape in time … Anyway, I thought to give a listen to a few versions to see what others had done with the song, so I had a listen to some iTunes selections and discovered a version by Lorcán MacMathúna. I don’t recall if I got the answer that I was looking for, but I do recall that I was quite stunned by his version of the song. The voice was strong, clear, and wrapped around the song perfectly, allowing it to come out in a way that I’d rarely heard. A Google search a few weeks later to find out more information on him and his work revealed a promotional video for the new large scale piece An Táin, performed by MacMathúna’s ensemble Deep End of the Ford, in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTDBXv1-C-8"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTDBXv1-C-8</span></a> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The Táin (or, more precisely, An Táin Bó Cuailgne) is an ancient Irish epic poem dating from pre-Christian times that depicts a war that ensues when Maedhbh (pronounced Maeve), the queen of Connaught attempts to steal the Donn Cuailgne, a famous bull of Ulster. The armies of Ulster fall under a sickness that leaves the defense of the province to the hero Cú Chulainn — still just in his teens. The story, originally from the oral tradition, exists in three different recensions. This reading of the story is from the second recension in the Book of Leinster from the 12th Century. If you’d like to read a modern translation of the story you have the choice of a pair of excellent translations — one by Thomas Kinsella (1969 Oxford University Press) and one by Ciarán Carson (2007 Penguin Classics). I like both — the Carson is a bit more animated in its language and perhaps an easier read. But don’t assume that this is going to be a slog — both books and The Táin itself are magical works, full of humor and adventure. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">This recording is a magical work, too. The instrumentation is accordion, piano, bass clarinet, fiddle, uileann pipes, vpipes, low whistles and vocals. The sound is at once thoroughly modern and somehow ancient. I’m reminded of a lecture I once heard where a description was given of ‘dord’ — a type of singing/chanting/whispering that was practiced by ancient Irish warriors. I imagine this singing as being akin to that. And while the singing has the feel, at times, of being improvised, at others it feels as ordered and structured as an old syllabic poem with MacMathúna as a latter-day reacaire. But there’s nothing self-indulgent here — no artistic posturing and everything is in service to moving the story along. The whole thing is sung in Old Irish, by the way, but there are translations of the words here (<a href="http://lorcanmacmathuna.com/antain/translations/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">http://lorcanmacmathuna.com/antain/translations/</span></a>) </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">There are some great melodies and truly exciting and moving passages. This is an extraordinary work.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Movement 4 - Cú Chulainn's Sleep </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Movement 6 - Dinnseancahas (Instrumental) </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Movement 7 - The Manipulation of Ferdia </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Movement 9 - Scread Ceann Sualtaim (The cries of Sualtaim's Head)</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Lorcán Mac Mathúna - voice; Martin Tourish - accordion, piano; Seán Mac Erlaine - bass clarinet; Eoghan Neff - fiddle; Flaithrí Neff - uileann pipes, vpipes, low whistle</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Dell, NY 1980 pp. 313 </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">This was one of the scandalous books of my youth. While not as legendary as <i>Lady Chatterley’s Lover,</i> there was, nevertheless, a certain cachet (if you were a schoolboy) to having access to a banned copy of it. Censorship was instituted in Ireland in the 1930s to preserve and promote a Catholic cultural identity for the country and anything deemed un-Catholic, indecent or obscene was banned. Film would be cut — hacked might be a better word — so that sometimes scenes would take sudden turns or end abruptly, and quite often parts of the film were reduced to incomprehensibility. Books were just banned. So, too, were many English periodicals and magazines, jazz records — anything that might undermine the morals of Catholic Ireland. The writers who were banned included most the major writers of the day who were writing in English. <i>The Register of Prohibited Publications</i> was often referred to by wags as <i>Everyman’s Guide to the Modern Classics</i>. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">By the time I got to The Ginger Man it was in the late ‘60s and the heavy hand of the censor was getting lighter. Since many of the major Irish writers of the day were banned in their own homeland, this was becoming an embarrassment to the Irish authorities. So, the rules relaxed a bit and many books that had been previously passed around surreptitiously were now openly available. But, truth to tell, when I picked up The Ginger Man I wasn’t impressed. I was under the impression that this was to be a Rabelaisian romp, full of drunken shenanigans and rife with descriptions of illicit sex. “A comic masterpiece” they said. The book seemed was dull, mean-spirited and miserable. After about twenty pages, I put it down again.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The years pass and along the way I acquired books (as one does) and in my library is a copy of the Ginger Man. It’s the green cover from Dell Publishing and dated 1980. It’s a second-hand paperback and bought, I’m sure, because I promised myself that I’d give it another try. And here I am doing a series of reviews of important or informative books relating to Ireland. A perfect opportunity to keep that promise … </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Well, I have to say that this is a hard book to like. I’m not a fan of ‘funny’ books i.e. books that are written explicitly to be funny. I find and enjoy all kinds of humor in literature but I prefer it incidental and witty rather than set up. This book I just couldn’t find amusing.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Sebastian Dangerfield is the protagonist. He’s an American (as is Dunleavy) living in Dublin and studying law at Trinity College. He’s married to an English woman (who he thought had money) and is the reluctant father of a very young daughter. He is totally amoral, dissolute, violent to women and a whiner. His world is a shambles of drink, carnal entanglements and chaos and he brings all of his many troubles on himself.  He lies, steals, cheats and abuses all around him. And yet, in every chapter, after the latest sordid betrayal, there is a reflective stream of consciousness monologue that gives us a sort of partial glimpse inside of him. There is no attempt made at explanation or excuses; no wish to be redeemed in men’s eyes. But there seems to be the stirrings of self-knowledge or conscience, and, over time, there grows a kind of … pity, maybe for all the failings and the pain. It’s a bit like watching an addict — a narcissistic addict. It’s not pretty but it is interesting. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The writing is what saves the book. At times it’s nothing short of brilliant. There’s a kind of cubist approach where the point of view changes person — from third person to first person or vice versa — and bits and pieces of surrounding dialogue interject to give different simultaneous views of a scene. Likewise in the stream of consciousness passages, grammar is broken and rearranged to create a more kaleidoscopic mind picture. This is the best use of this technique that I’ve seen since I first encountered it in Ulysses and there are echoes of Joyce and of Leopold Bloom wandering the streets of Dublin.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">So, a final opinion. There’s much important about this book. The writing moved the art of fiction ahead but I had a hard time getting beyond the repellent behavior of Sebastian Dangerfield. The misogyny was at best cringe-worthy and at worst, infuriating. The same self-inflicted disasters recurring over and over again, was tiresome. And, in the end, it seemed as if this man would never attain enough self-knowledge to ever be redeemed. Or maybe he would — but by then I was glad to be shut of him and didn’t care</span></p>
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<p><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Everyone has heard of Mardi Gras — Fat Tuesday — but not everyone will have heard of Shrove Tuesday. From the word <i>shrive</i> meaning to confess, it’s the day before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent. In Ireland it’s known as Pancake Tuesday. Its origins spring from the traditon of using up eggs, which were commonly not eaten during the Lenten season. The eggs that were laid during Lent were saved and a feast of eggs was a common breakfast on Easter Sunday. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">When I lived in England I was about twelve miles from the town of Olney, which has an annual Pancake Day race that dates back to 1445. The race is only open to the women of the town, who race with their pan a short distance from a local pub to the church and who must flip the pancake at least twice during the race.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">My mother made pancakes every year and Pancake Tuesday was the only time I ever remember eating them. They’re quite different from the pancakes found on breakfast menus all over the US — much thinner and, as you might expect, richer in eggs. They’re usually eaten with a squeeze of lemon juice, a pat of butter and some fine sugar sprinkled on. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I looked around for a good recipe and found one on the Guardian website, along with a video that was helpful. Here’s the list of ingredients with American equivalents and a summary of the directions: </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">125 grams all purpose flour — that’s about 4½ oz </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">225 ml whole or reduced fat milk — about 7½ fluid oz </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">1 egg + 1 egg yolk </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">pinch of salt </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Beat the milk and the eggs together. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Add the flour and salt and mix in slowly </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Leave to sit about ½ and hour </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Heat the pan and put in the knob of butter and spread it out until it covers the bottom of the pan thinly and evenly. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Pour enough batter to make a thin coating and cook about ½ a minute</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Then flip the pancake — or, as in my case, try to flip the pancake. You can also turn it over with a spatula … </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Cook about another ½ minute.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Remove to a warm plate.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Repeat </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The Guardian recipe is a bit more detailed and the video is helpful. You can see both <a href="http://www.apple.com"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">here</span></a>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I discovered this book quite by accident. I had misremembered someone’s name, and in the process of doing a Google search, discovered Kate Thompson. It was around the time that our recording, <i>The Pooka and the Fiddler &amp; Happy as Larry</i> came out, so the description that I read of this book intrigued and delighted me. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I’ll not go into too much detail about the plot. It involves lost time — not in a Proustian sense but quite literally — an old family mystery involving a possible murder and Tír na nÓg, the land of the forever young. One element of the story that appealed greatly to me was the idea that one sometimes finds in traditional Irish music-making, that tunes are not so much composed as they are learned. The idea that the sound of a stream or the waves on the ocean or the wind blowing through the trees will suggest a tune and that the tune is coming across from some other world. It is the notion of <i>draíocht</i> or enchantment, sometimes translated as magic. The famous tune <i>Port na bPúcaí</i> is a very well known example of this idea. Seamus Heaney wrote a poem on the subject called <i>The Given Note</i> which he famously recorded with the piper Liam O’Flynn. It goes, in part, </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>So whether he calls it spirit music<br>Or not, I don't care. He took it<br>Out of wind off mid-Atlantic. </i></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>Still he maintains, from nowhere</i></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">And if you play Irish music, I think you’ll doubly enjoy it. Each chapter ends with the printed music for an Irish tune. So a chapter in which the main character, JJ Liddy, patches up a disagreement with his friend, Jimmy Dowling, ends with music for <i>The Reconciliation</i>. many of the tunes will be familiar to the seasoned session musician but there are some not-so-well-known tunes in there, too. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Kate Thompson is a consummate writer — this book won the <i>Whitbread Children’s Book Award</i> and the <i>Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize</i>. The prose is elegant and brisk, the story is compelling and JJ Liddy is an engaging hero. I enjoyed it very much and recommend it highly.</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I don’t watch a lot of movies. You may have noticed that is the first movie review to appear on these pages. It’s a complex and rich art form and one that I feel I should be more appreciative of, but movies don’t stay with me the way books do. I really don’t know why and I wouldn’t make an argument for the superiority of literature. It’s just what I prefer.</span><br><span style="font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">    That said, I must admit that I loved this movie. My friend Leslie Jordan told me about it a few years ago and I finally got around to watching it. It was Ireland’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film in the 2008 Academy Awards® and a deserving contender. It’s based on the one-act play <em>The Kings of Kilburn High Road</em> and tells the story of a group of young men who left the West of Ireland to go to work in London. One of that group, some thirty years later, has died and all the action takes place on his funeral day. Jackie Flaherty was a champion hooker (Irish: <em>húicéir</em>) racer back in Galway — a hooker is a type of small sailing boat — and on this day his aged father is arriving to take body back home to the West. His five friends, Joe, Shay, Git, Jap and Mairtín gather to wake him and we watch as the backstory unfolds. </span>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">    The cast is excellent — Colm Meaney as Joe Mullan and Brendan Conroy as Git Miller are particularly outstanding. The soundtrack has won awards and I was taken particularly by the use of old Irish sean-nós songs. <em>Dónal Óg</em> is sung in Irish over the opening credits — “Dónal Óg, if you cross the ocean, take me with you when you are going”. And there’s a beautiful sung version of the prayer  <em>A Mhuire na nGrást</em> that occurs at various times throughout the film. The final verse of <em>Donal Óg</em>, again sung in Irish towards the end of the film, takes on a particular poignancy — </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">“For you took what's before me and what's behind me<br>Took east and west when you wouldn't mind me<br>Sun, moon and stars from me you've taken<br>And God as well if I'm not mistaken” </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">There were a couple of times during the film when it seemed to me that the time-frame had been dislocated and that all the events happened a whole generation earlier. The story starts with the young men emigrating in 1977 and the events of the film occurring in 2007. It actually made more sense to me — for a number of reasons — that the emigration happened in 1947 and that the events of the day were taking place in 1977. In the end, it’s not important. The power of the story still comes through. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The dialogue is in Irish — hence the Best Foreign Language category — but it’s subtitled and it lends an air of  ‘otherness’ to the film that greatly adds to it. Recommended.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">  <span class="font_large">  I got a nice big stack of new books for Christmas this year. It could have been a little daunting as to where to start, but there were a couple in there that had just recently gone on my wish-list and that I was curious to crack open. The first was Edna O’Brien’s recent memoir, <i>Country Girl</i> and the other was the <i>The Country Girls</i> trilogy — <i>The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl</i> and <i>Girls in Their Married Bliss</i>. The first of these novels, <i>The Country Girls</i>, was published in 1960, created a scandal and shortly afterwards was banned in Ireland. It was called “a smear on Irish womanhood”. It was decried from the pulpit, burned in public by the author’s parish priest and earned O’Brien a reputation as a ‘sexy’ writer. I didn’t read the book at the time — I was a bit young and it was, after all banned — and somehow, over the years I never got to it, despite O’Brien’s reputation as a literary heavy-weight.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="font_large"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">    It’s the story of Caithleen (Kate) Brady and her friend Brigid (Baba) Brennan and their life in rural Ireland in the mid-1940s. Occurring in the same times as those depicted in <i>Tarry Flynn</i> (reviewed some months ago), there is an air of sexual repression and a society that is inward-looking, backward and conservative. The narrator is Caithleen, quiet, studious and obedient. She’s a romantic and longs for love. Baba, on the other hand, is brash, narcissistic but vibrant and alive and longs for experiences — the experiences of a single woman. Through much of the book Baba is annoying and unsympathetic. It’s only over time that one realizes that she’s the rebel of the two — or rebel up to a point. I’ve not read the whole trilogy, but from all appearances, she’s the one who finds love and Kate seems to be destined for disappointment.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="font_large"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">    I’ve been reading O’Brien’s memoir <i>Country Girl</i> alongside  this novel and it is clear that much of the novel is autobiographical. O’Brien’s father was a feckless and often violent drunk who let his estate dwindle into ruin and various other characters in the novel are obviously based on real people. But O’Brien’s big sin was to show the world the nature of the society in which she lived in and how beneath all that ‘respectability’ were people - women - with strong yearnings and desires. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="font_large"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">    Again, though scandalous in its day, there is something oddly innocent about this book today. In many ways, it’s a lovely depiction of rural Ireland and a simpler way of life. There is much sadness to be seen in people’s lives but much warmth, too. And there’s an odd acceptance of this life — Kate’s deference to men, her blindness to abuse as affection — that make her rebellion seen lonely and hardly worth it. And yet deep in its core I’m reminded of Stephen Dedalus and his motto “Non Serviam” — I will not serve — the sin for which Lucifer was cast from Heaven. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">English versions bear little resemblance to the original Indian dish. As with all classic dishes there are always those who insist that there is only one way to make it that is correct. So, in a spirit of culinary ecumenism, I'll confess that I have no such notions of what is the "right" way to make this dish. This is my way and you should feel free to change it as you wish.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">A few notes first. This is a great dish for a brunch as it can be kept warm with no problems. It also makes a wonderful breakfast-- and it is in this role that I am most familiar with it -- or a light supper. It works well with Mimosas or Bloody Marys and can be served with sliced fresh mango or mango chutney.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">1 Tablespoon butter<br>Half a small onion finely diced<br>1/4 teaspoon turmeric<br>1/4 teaspoon cayenne<br>1 teaspoon curry powder<br>1 1/2 cups of long grain rice, rinsed<br>12oz - 1lb smoked fish, flaked -- see note below<br>2 hard boiled eggs -- peeled and chopped<br>1/2 cup cream, warmed gently<br>3 Tablespoons lemon juice<br>1/2 teaspoon white pepper<br>Nutmeg</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Cook the rice as per instructions.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Meanwhile sauté the onion, turmeric, cayenne and curry powder gently in the butter for about 5 minutes until the onion softens.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">In a large bowl gently mix the cooked rice, the onion mix, the flaked fish and the hard-boiled eggs. Then add the cream, the lemon juice, the white pepper and a grating of nutmeg. If you don't have white pepper, black is fine. You will probably not need salt in this recipe due to the saltiness of the fish.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Put the mixture in a buttered ovenproof dish and place the dish in the oven until heated through.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Note on the fish: any smoked fish will do but smoked haddock is considered to be the best. It's what I like, when I can find it. Smoked salmon is a good choice. If the fish you are using is still quite moist just go ahead and use it as it is. If it's pretty dry, soak it in milk for an hour or so and poach it gently in fresh milk. You can use this poaching liquid to substitute for the cream in the recipe. It brings the fat content down somewhat. It's also handy in case you want to adjust the moisture content.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Enjoy.</span><br><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Mick</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Traditionally, the Palm Oil Chop is chicken cut into smallish pieces, or cubed beef — or both — and browned in palm oil with ginger and cinnamon and some chilli. Then onions and tomatoes and bell peppers are chopped, added to the oil and cooked until tender — about 20 minutes. Then the chicken and/or the beef is returned and cooked for up to an hour or more. By this time then vegetables will be more like a sauce than separate pieces. Season well with salt and pepper and serve over rice … with garnishes.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">This dish is all about the garnishes and that’s where the fun begins. Especially on a festive occasion like Christmas, you can go a bit overboard on the garnishes and it can make for lovely decoration of the Christmas table. I usually serve all this buffet-style. Here are some of the garnishes that I’ve used and you can come up with your own, too.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Dried coconut</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Roasted dried coconut </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Finely chopped red onions </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Crispy fried onions </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Sliced scallions </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Chopped tomatoes </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Toasted peanuts </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Raisins </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Sliced banana </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Fried banana and/or plantain</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Pineapple chunks </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Orange sections </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Mango cubes </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Grapes</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Avocado slices </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Sliced cucumber</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Diced cantaloup </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Cilantro leaves </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Croutons </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Chopped hard-boiled eggs — or serve whole hard-boiled eggs, a là Doro Wat </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Pickled Limes</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Mango Chutney </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Peach Chutney </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Raitas</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">What I recommend is that you put a small amount of rice on your plate. Add a few garnishes that take your fancy, then mix the rice and the garnishes together thoroughly. Add some sauce and mix that in, too. Give that combination a try, then get some more rice and some more garnishes and try out that combination. Yes, the sauce is important but the rice/garnish combinations are where you can have a fun culinary experience.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I usually have a few different curried dishes — a lamb Rogan Josh, spicy chicken in a sauce with cream and banana, perhaps a vegetable curry and maybe some Saag Paneer. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Galley Beggar 2013<br>203 </span>​<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">pp</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Some book are a hard read because they’re badly written. Some are difficult because they’re deliberately challenging — <em>Finnegans Wake</em> or <em>Riddley Walker</em>, for instance. Some are difficult because of the subject matter — a number of books come to mind here: <em>Under The Volcano</em>, <em>The Road</em>, Ron Butlin’s <em>The Sound of My Voice</em>. But I’ve never read a book quite like this before — the relentless bleakness, the relentless pain. And the sometimes intense beauty of the writing. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I discovered this book in an article in The Guardian by Anne Enright (who knows a thing or two about dark prose) where she refers to Eimear McBride as a “genius”. And she may be right about that.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">McBride writes in a kind of stream of consciousness, with broken and incomplete sentences, overheard fragments of outside conversation and memories popping in and out, bidden and unbidden. It can be hard to follow at times and the style never really settles into anything close to normal prose. But the style is not ‘experimental’. The experiment is over and she has the thing nailed. The language is used with a precision that tells truth, opens dark places and is fierce in its desperation to put words on perceptions.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The story is of a girl (never named) and her older brother who suffered a brain tumor as a child. There is a bond between the two that serves as a symbol for all that is safe and clean in her world — but the world she lives in is not safe and not clean. When only thirteen she’s raped by her uncle, though, in her telling of it, the encounter is vague and unclear — very likely as it was in her mind at the time. In fact her account of nearly everything is vague and distant, as if some part of her is detached from events. Confused and adrift in a swirling world, she uses sex as a weapon, thinking it her strength. But a drunken promiscuity brings a ravaging of her soul and sex becomes her weakness. She craves humiliation and abuse while all the time trying to heal a great wound inside. It’s a difficult book to explain mostly, I think, because the book is a protracted attempt at an explanation and has an empty distance at its core. The psychology is of damage and incoherence and the book is a vivid exploration of a broken life. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">But the language is exquisite. It reads like a stinging poem:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">“At night I dream. Always. God is. Give me unquiet dreams. When the world. That. I dream. I see the plains of the sea, turning over. Tar. Black as. Through the. My nose press. Open. Close. Like a seal on the ice. Against the smell of rot. Come from black come from. Where the. Where the world is. Turn like. On the face of it. Diving. Feel I that. Where we ought to. I am of the. Off the. Who are you wake. Up. And the window is filled with light.” </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">This is a hugely brave book, both in subject matter and in style but it’s not for everyone. I loved it but even those who will love this book will find themselves reeling at times. </span></p>
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<p><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Though I’d read some of Durcan’s work in anthologies, my first sustained exposure was back in 1994 when my friend, Cindy Reich, gave me a present of a book called <em>Give Me Your Hand</em>, with an inscription inside that read: “<em>To Mick in Niwot. Love and warmest wishes. Paul Durcan. TCD 9.3.94</em>”  The poems in this collection are based on paintings in the National Gallery in London. And they are a delight. Rather like improv comedy, they take a slanted view on these familiar paintings and create backstories and observations that draw the eye and the understanding in new and fresh ways. Here you will find Van Gogh’s mother berating art historians; there’s a strange riff from one Jesus who claims he was born in Belfast — “<em>my father Joe was a fitter in the Harland and Wolff shipyard</em>”; an old tiger in a nursing home gets a visit from his nephew: Mrs. Andrews plots the murder of Mr. Andrews.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">James Joyce wrought Dublin as a metaphor for the whole world. Kavanagh used the hills of Monaghan to show that the provincial could contain the universal. But Durcan explores the human mind with its whims and imaginative leaps to jolt us out of our habit of thinking that we understand what we see. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">And he does it in a sometimes hilarious way. His own background is a painful one — he was the son of a circuit judge who thought him “a sissy’ and who had him committed, as a young man, to a mental hospital and subjected to electro-shock therapy to cure him of his unconventional ways. This has left many psychic scars, according to the poet himself, but the humanity and compassion of his work and the wry and witty askance views of life are wonderful. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Here’s a snippet of <em>Cardinal Richelieu</em> and all of <em>The Rokeby Venus</em>. <br><br><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/35514/028f6f27661e3dbfa4e188f84af317540494f00e/small/cardinal-richelieu.jpeg?1382923452" class="size_s justify_right border_" /></span></p>
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<br><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Cardinal Richelieu</b></span>
<p><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Mother, I do appreciate how chuffed</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">You must be that your son is a cardinal</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">But it is a hard old station staying off the drink </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You in your turn must appreciate</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">That what takes precedence in my life</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Is not you or wine but my red biretta </span></p>
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<b>The Rokeby Venus </b><br><br><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">I lie on my bed</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">  </span><br><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">In the raw watching videos </span>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"><br><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Soap after soap </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Weeping my eyes out </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"><br><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">On a Yorkshire moor </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A kicked-over heap of tears </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"><br><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Is that not what a woman is -</span><br><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A kicked-over heap of tears? </span><br> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Pity. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Pity about men. </span></p>
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><span style="font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">There was a stage production that ran for a month in New York last year </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">featuring two fine actors, Dermot Crowley and Dearbhla Molloy. I'm hoping that some enterprising presenters will pick this show up and that we might see a tour. </span>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">So can see some of the show at their website -- </span><a href="http://www.givemeyourhand.info">http://www.givemeyourhand.info</a> or at  <span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHuUS8dDuPI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHuUS8dDuPI</a></span></p>
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