27th January 2010 – Peter Geoghegan

Ian Sansom – Stranger than Fiction

By peterPosted on 27th January 2010Posted in Books, Northern Ireland, PoliticsTagged Bad Book Affair, Fiction, Ian Sansom, Queen's, Seamus Heaney

Ian Sansom is a true gent, and if you’ve never picked up one of his hilarious novels you should. This feature on Sansom and his latest novel, The Bad Book Affair, appeared in The Sunday Herald on Sunday 24 January. A prominent Northern Irish politician involved in a sensational sex scandal. Accusations of dodgy dealings […]

Lough Rynn Hotel, Mohill

By peterPosted on 27th January 2010Posted in Irish Times, TravelTagged Longford, Lough Rynn Hotel, Mohill

This review of the Lough Rynn Hotel in Mohill appeared in The Irish Times on Saturday 16 January ’10. I first visited Lough Rynn well over 20 years ago. It was the day of my first communion. We squashed into my mother’s blue Renault 5 for the half-hour journey north from our Longford home to […]

Day: 27th January 2010