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Dave Duggan is a novelist and dramatist born in London, raised in Waterford, and living in Derry. He is the author of the novels The Greening of Larry Mahon (Guildhall Press, 2004), A Sudden Sun (Guildhall Press, 2012), and Makaronik (Cló Iar Chonnacht, 2018). His film work includes the Oscar nominated Dance Lexie Dance (Raw Nerve Productions, 1996). Dave’s theatre work has played throughout Ireland and in Edinburgh, Liverpool, New York and Afghanistan. His fourth novel, Oak and Stone, is published by Merdog Books (2019).

Topical-Opinion

The Paris Attacks and the Problem of Language

Dave Duggan Nov 24, 2015 0

Fionola Meredith writes an opinion column in the Belfast Telegraph, one of Northern Ireland's leading daily newspapers. In Friday's edition, she is angry. She is forceful, polemical and vehement. Writing trenchantly, under the headline…

Film Review

Film Review | Suffragette Ably Underlines The Struggle it Presents

Dave Duggan Oct 28, 2015 0

The cinema-goer remembers his late mother, a laundry worker, as he watches the film Suffragette. It's the hard-hitting tale of a struggle for equality; a mediation on violence and non-violence; a set of family dramas and a major…

Film Review

Film Review| Ricki and the Flash – This Cinema-Goer is Not Impressed

Dave Duggan Oct 5, 2015 0

Can't you just call in sick and skip therapy? No, mom, I am sick, that's why I'm in therapy. The cinema-goer gets it. Ricki and the Flash is a film-allegory about the sick state of family life in the USA, and maybe even in the world,…

Topical News

Pandas, Sex, and Stock Markets

Dave Duggan Aug 31, 2015 0

A panda gives birth to twin cubs and we obsess. What is it about pandas and sex? We scour the globe for mates for lone pandas. We strive to create matching pairs. We salivate, like porn-junkies, waiting for them to mate. Their coitus is…

Film Review

The Imitation Game | review

Dave Duggan Nov 26, 2014 0

The cinema-goer realises he read Andrew Hodges' book on Alan Turing, the University of Cambridge and British Military Intelligence mathematician, who may single-handedly have invented modern discourse on Artificial Intelligence, almost…

Topical

James McClean and the Poppy

Dave Duggan Nov 14, 2014 0

TO WEAR OR NOT TO WEAR: THAT IS THE QUESTION James McClean is a young Irish professional soccer player from Derry Londonderry, making his living in England. He writes publicly to his employer to explain his reasons for not wearing a…

Topical

WHAT DO WE TELL THE CHILD ABOUT GAZA?

Dave Duggan Jul 29, 2014 0

Tell her it’s a game Tell her it’s serious The current onslaught on the people of Gaza, the latest in a series by The Israeli State and Defence Forces, shows: That if they wish they could blow the people of Gaza into the sea of oblivion.…

Music

The Garth Brooks Concert Fiasco

Dave Duggan Jul 21, 2014 0

Read the songs. The clues are in the song titles of the Garth Brooks playlist. They tell us it was a Beer Run for Big Money. It's the Same Old Story.A commercial decision, Digging for Gold, to sell a product that doesn't exist, leaves…

Literature Features

WATCHING THE RELEASE OF BOWE BERGDAHL

Dave Duggan Jun 11, 2014 0

The watcher sees 1:53 of a 17-minute film. It is on http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/taliban-release-video-of-bergdahl-handover-to-us-military-1.1820205 and other websites,…

Film Review

Watching Calvary

Dave Duggan Apr 28, 2014 2

The cinema-goer sits in a packed cinema in Castlebar (54 degrees North, 9 degrees West) on Good Friday, watching Calvary. The film is reviewed as a comedy, particularly by media outlets in London (51 degrees North, 0 degrees West). …

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