ISLAND launch and benefit gig

national | arts and media | press release Thursday January 25, 2007 18:04 by SWM - PR - Small World Media

ISLAND journal to be launched in Cork

Cover of ISLAND 1

ISLAND, the new quarterly journal, will be launched in February at a benefit gig to be announced. Specialising in the themes culture and commuity, the first issue of ISLAND features an interview with Irish band Kíla, a story about a spooky freight airline that lands at Shannon, an interview with community minister Eamon Ó Cuív, pieces on the last of the volunteers plus verse, short fiction, book reviews and essays.
The contents are:

DONALD MAHONEY talks to Rónán O Snodaigh and Eoin Dillon about their solo work and profiles Kíla

DEIRDRE CLANCY listens to her 105-year-old grandfather sean talk about his part in the war of independence and DERRY CHAMBERS has a word with 104 year old Dan Keating, who was on the other side to sean Clancy during the civil war

CD STELZER on a spooky airline that does business at Shannon and Prestwich

MIKE WAGSTAFF takes a look at the work of Media Lens to find out why some
journalists hate them

MAGGIE RONAYNE on grassroots organising and that revolution in Venezuela

ROBERT ALLEN finds out why Indaver’s John Ahern is desperate to get Linda Fitzpatrick to talk to hm

DEIRDRE CLANCY explains why Eva Gore-Booth was ahead of her time with her
pacifist vegetarian feminist libertarian stance

MARTINA QUINN talks to Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Minister Éamon Ó Cuív about the radical changes he is making to improve the lives of rural and urban communities

ERIK VALENCIC continues east of hell

CHRIS LAWLOR has more on Dunlavin’s history

PETRA MADILL wonders why we get the painters in

MAGGIE RONAYNE on the community opposition to the Ilisu dam in the Kurdish region of Turkey

MARTINA QUINN goes to Fettercairn to see three young trainee jockeys

ROBERT ALLEN talks to Gary Cusack about Mulligans’ reputation as the Home of the Pint

MARTINA QUINN on the men who are waiting to die

AYNIA BRENNAN takes a close look at nature

JIM PAGE Story of a Song: Hiroshima Nagasaka Russian Roulette

+ fiction by JOHN KELLY

+ poetry by JOHN O’LEARY

+ review of books by Michael Kirby, Roddy Doyle, Liam Leonard, Che Guevara,
Fidel Castro, Emiliano Zapata, Philip Roth and Dilip Hiro

ISLAND can be ordered from Small World Media, Knocknaquirk, Magheramore, Co Wicklow, or by emailing islandeditorial@googlemail.com or ringing Robert on 087 955 1504.
Subscriptions are €40 for 4 issues, postage and packaging inclusive.
Individual copies are €9.95 plus postage and packaging. Cheques are payable to Small World Media