[New-Poetry] Controversy in Dublin, Ireland

[Sigauke, Emmanuel]

Can we blog about this, Seamus? Can we site you? 

Emmanuel
www.vasigauke.blogspot.com

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From: new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu [mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Séamas Cain
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:19 AM
To: New-Poetry E-list
Cc: info at dublinwritersfestival.com
Subject: [New-Poetry] Controversy in Dublin, Ireland

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Dublin Writers Festival
http://www.dublinwritersfestival.com

Dear Administrators,

Once again the Dublin Writers Festival has excluded Irish-language
writers from any meaningful participation in the Festival events and
activities.  This behaviour by the organizers is shameful, offensive,
and imperious.  Indeed, I call for a boycott of the Dublin Writers
Festival.  It is my intention to urge writers, artists, and other
citizens (in Ireland, Britain, the U.S. and other countries) to
withdraw any and all support from the Festival and its activities.  I
urge an earthquake of a protest campaign until there is a constructive
remedy to this imperiousness!

For creative diversity in Ireland,

Séamas Cain
http://alazanto.org/seamascain

323 Fourth Street,
Cloquet, Minnesota,
U.S.A.,
55720 - 2051

Phone (in North America) : 218.879.8628

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gabriel Rosenstock
Date: Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Subject: Dublin Festival Farce
To: info at dublinwritersfestival.com

Dublin Writers Festival
http://www.dublinwritersfestival.com

Greetings!

I had hoped that the days of literary and linguistic apartheid were
well over.  Seemingly not.  It would appear that your festival has
boycotted Irish-language writers.  How sad.  Pathetic, really, given
the fact that an anthology of contemporary Irish-language poetry and
prose, AMANAIRIS, has appeared in Slovenian and was recently launched
in the National Library, Dublin, and reported below in the Slovenian
press.

http://www.sta.si/en/vest.php?s=s&id=1389165

Mise, gan mórán measa agam oraibh,

Gabriel Rosenstock

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Boycott and protest against the Dublin Writers Festival!

Séamas Cain
http://alazanto.org/seamascain

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