“Declan Burke is his own genre. The Lammisters dazzles, beguiles and transcends. Virtuoso from start to finish.” – Eoin McNamee “This bourbon-smooth riot of jazz-age excess, high satire and Wodehouse flamboyance is a pitch-perfect bullseye of comic brilliance.” – Irish Independent Books of the Year 2019 “This rapid-fire novel deserves a place on any bookshelf that grants asylum to PG Wodehouse, Flann O’Brien or Kyril Bonfiglioli.” – Eoin Colfer, Guardian Best Books of the Year 2019 “The funniest book of the year.” – Sunday Independent “Declan Burke is one funny bastard. The Lammisters ... conducts a forensic analysis on the anatomy of a story.” – Liz Nugent “Burke’s exuberant prose takes centre stage … He plays with language like a jazz soloist stretching the boundaries of musical theory.” – Totally Dublin “A mega-meta smorgasbord of inventive language ... linguistic verve not just on every page but every line.” – Irish Times “Above all, The Lammisters gives the impression of a writer enjoying himself. And so, dear reader, should you.” – Sunday Times “A triumph of absurdity, which burlesques the literary canon from Shakespeare, Pope and Austen to Flann O’Brien … The Lammisters is very clever indeed.” – The Guardian

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

To Dundalk, James, And Spare Not The Horses

I’m off to Dundalk on Saturday, to take part in the inaugural Dundalk Books Festival, and I’m very much looking forward to it. That’s in part because it’s always good to get the opportunity to talk books, but also because I’ll be doing so in the company of two of the country’s finest writers, Declan Hughes (right) and Niamh O’Connor.
  The event runs from 1-3pm on Saturday, April 27th and takes place at The Tain Theatre in Dundalk, where we’ll be interviewed by Gerry Kelly of LMFM, read a little from our books, breathe fire and roll a few tumbles. Just another Saturday afternoon, then.
  Other writers contributing to the Festival are Christine Dwyer-Hickey, Claudia Carroll, Sarah Webb and Catherine Dunne.
  For all the details, clickety-click here …
  Incidentally, Declan Hughes’ play ‘Digging for Fire’ is enjoying a revival at the Project Arts Centre right now, and runs until May 4th. I saw the play (which is twenty years old this year) as a read-through a couple of years ago, and thought it was brilliantly prophetic of Ireland’s post-boom landscape, even if it was speaking very much about its own time. If you get a chance to see it, you should – apart from everything else, it’s not every day you get to see a play that takes its title from a Pixies song.
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