Diary of a Dissenter: A Week From My Window

A play or novel about a roomful of Monaghan farmer transvestites would have — for 25 years afterwards — seemed implausible, and then — overnight — a case of 'so-what, old-hat'.

Mad Arabs, Spatial Strategies, and Other Stories

FRIDAY

Since comedy has been a recent steady theme of this diary, I had intended to mention last week another comedy-related matter, arising from a gig we went to last night, in a certain Southside Dublin hostelry that must remain unidentified for reasons of domestic humourism, (otherwise ‘domestic terroris…