that was really interesting wish it was longer

Loved CwF...thankyou Sally.

Conversations With Friends was freaking brilliant

quite strange this, they all seem to be the people Rooney based her characters on

@mickfunny4185

5 жыл бұрын

Sean does that include the moderator?

@Toastedtiddies

3 жыл бұрын

@@mickfunny4185 lolll funny!

contemporary Irish writing seems promising

I will have to leave you tube , Facebook and all that kind of stuff.....

The most transgressive thing you can do as a woman writer is to write about your own experience? 2:33 I certainly don't think that there is a shortage of women writing about their experiences, and it doesn't seem very transgressive to me, nor can I understand why transgression is an end in an of itself. Also the "most" transgressive thing you can do as a woman writer -- the *most*? What if a particular woman writer's experience of the world is not in anyway transgressive? Is writing about her experience still the most transgressive thing that she can write about?

@Anhorish

4 жыл бұрын

Think of Gramsci's line, the truth is in itself revolutionary (or transgressive if you prefer) and your question is answered, especially when most female lives are circumscribed by male expectations.

@williamoarlock8634

3 жыл бұрын

@@Anhorish And male lives must conform to female expectation.

@casteretpollux

3 жыл бұрын

In answer to your questions/statements: Yes. Noted. Not Possible. Yes.

@casteretpollux

3 жыл бұрын

What would you know?

What is Sally Rooney doing there among these other literary masters (mistresses?). She has no ability.

@tbwatch88

2 жыл бұрын

THANK you, mate.

@salkeld571

2 жыл бұрын

Her book sales tell a different story.

@tbwatch88

2 жыл бұрын

@@salkeld571 conflating sales and talent, eh? well done.

@salkeld571

2 жыл бұрын

@@tbwatch88 Irish novelist Sally Rooney, 27, has become the youngest author ever to win the Costa Novel Award. No ability?

Do you have male Irish writers too? It feels it’s all about women writers these days.

@davidcg0rdon

5 жыл бұрын

If you watch the clip Sally Rooney references two contemporary male Irish writers that inspire her i.e. Kevin Barry and Colin Barrett. Colm Toibin, Colum McCann, Donal Ryan, John Banville, John Connolly are all still writing. Poor men, we're so marginalised cuz it's all about women.

@mhbackman

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidcg0rdon Yep-I'd highly recommend Kevin Barry.

@rmilrta

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry how you're forced to read books you don't want to. I read Normal People of my own free will, and although it's a great book, it would have spoiled it if I had been forced to read it as you were. It's awful that someone's filtering your KZread so that you can't find any male Irish writers talking on here. Who is this person? I really sympathize with your predicament.

@FintanR

5 жыл бұрын

Them and their matriarchal canon. Honestly, it'd give you the pip.

@emileconstance5851

5 жыл бұрын

There does seem to be more media coverage of women writers currently, which is great, but I do find it discouraging when male writers are disregarded or dismissed for being male writers. I know that throughout history it's been just the reverse, so I understand how and why things would move in this direction, but ideally it would be nice if we could assess the merits of artists and writers without regard to their gender. (And I'm not suggesting that's why there are three women on this panel, that may just be a coincidence, and I believe there are more women writers currently--at least in Ireland, the UK, and the US.--and so we should expect to see more women writers getting attention/recognition; it partly answers someone else's question above about the panel of writers all being white--I'm guessing there are simply more white Irish writers, and it wasn't a deliberate decision to chose white writers for the panel.)