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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 _______________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gabriel Rosenstock Date: Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:51 AM Subject: Dublin Festival Farce To: [email protected] 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 _______________ Boycott and protest against the Dublin Writers Festival! Séamas Cain http://alazanto.org/seamascain _______________ ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
