Posts categorized “Culture”

Tim Pat pays tribute as new book remembers Brian O’Nolan


To mark the centenary of the birth of writer Brian O’Nolan his sole surviving sibling, Micheál Ó Nualláin, has published a collection of reminiscences, The Brother.

Speaking at the launch, Tim Pat Coogan said that O’Nolan’s long-running Irish Times column Cruiskeen Lawn was “the only regular fix of culture” that many people got in the “drab and dreary” 1950s.

» Read more in the Irish Times


‘Painting Politics’ talk Sunday 5th September


As part of  a series of talks to coincide with The Hugh Lane Gallery’ s John Lavery: Passion and Politics exhibition, Tim Pat will be speaking on Sunday 5th September (1.30pm) on ‘Painting Politics‘.  Admission free, first come first served.