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An Open Letter to Irish Writers

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | press release author Tuesday June 08, 2010 15:12author by Fred Johnstonauthor email sylfredcar at iolfree dot ieauthor phone 087.2178138 Report this post to the editors

John Berger and 30 other eminent writers have called for a cultural boycott of Israel. Apart from a marvellous poem by Richard Tillinghast published in The Irish Times, neither individual writers nor literary organisations in Ireland have uttered a word in the face of recent Israeli atrocities.
Letter in 'The Independent on Sunday'
Letter in 'The Independent on Sunday'

Novelist Alice Walker and UK novelist Iain Banks are the latest eminent writers to make their protest plain in print. So why have the majority - the vast majority - of Irish writers remained silent? When Israel's Mossad used Irish passports and others to carry out an assassination in Dubai, we were silent. Nine Turkish relief activists are murdered by Israeli commandos on board a ship carrying supplies in flotilla to Gaza and still the literary silence here is deafening.
Not so in Britain, where writers even organise, the better to protest. Some days ago I asked The Irish Writers' Union, Aosdána, and Poetry Ireland to make a statement condemning the attack at sea. So far I have had no reply.
Have we as writers lost some vital quality of outrage? How, I would ask, is it deemed among a fair selection of British writers to be a duty to protest when injustice arises in the world, yet Irish writers flinch at the suggestion - and some grow quite indignant at the suggestion - that we too have this duty to protest? I do hope you will take a moment to read the attached letter. Sincerely,
Fred Johnston

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   initiiative     non-voter    Tue Jun 08, 2010 21:41 
   being lazy     lazy    Tue Jun 08, 2010 22:57 
   I would hope . . .     Fred Johnston    Wed Jun 09, 2010 03:17 
   We need to do it ourselves     Fred Johnston    Wed Jun 09, 2010 03:23 
   writers weak     opus diablos    Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:13 
   hmmm     lazy    Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:14 
   Solidarity required     Fred Johnston    Wed Jun 09, 2010 19:15 
   Irish Media underestimates Irish people :-)     lazy    Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:40 
   Nothing New.     Philistine.    Fri Jun 11, 2010 19:15 
 10   Einstein Letter to NYTImes - 1948     Anti-Semanticism    Fri Jun 11, 2010 22:48 
 11   Butchered.     Philistine.    Fri Jun 11, 2010 23:34 
 12   not quite, philistine     opus diablos    Sat Jun 12, 2010 00:12 
 13   hmmmm . ..     Anti-Semanticism    Sat Jun 12, 2010 00:38 
 14   I agree . . .     Anti-Semanticism    Sat Jun 12, 2010 00:49 
 15   Out for our morning troll, are we, anti?     opus diablos    Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:39 
 16   Paranioa.     Philistine.    Sat Jun 12, 2010 13:08 
 17   Excuses for fascism     Historian    Sat Jun 12, 2010 15:18 
 18   American Money.     American.    Sat Jun 12, 2010 15:47 
 19   We're off the point     Fred Johnston    Sat Jun 12, 2010 16:22 
 20   Re: American Money     Historian    Sat Jun 12, 2010 17:03 
 21   The Americans Chose.     American.    Sat Jun 12, 2010 17:41 
 22   whatever . .     Historian    Sat Jun 12, 2010 18:13 
 23   American Selfishness.     American    Sun Jun 13, 2010 20:01 
 24   Brain Pain     opus gluteus    Mon Jun 14, 2010 00:06 
 25   Killing the Question     Fred Johnston    Mon Jun 14, 2010 01:14 
 26   Everybody.     Real Writer.    Mon Jun 14, 2010 09:47 
 27   Drivel?     Wally B    Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:45 
 28   Less than Twenty.     Real Writer.    Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:55 
 29   Good points     Fred Johnston    Mon Jun 14, 2010 13:54 
 30   the writing pool     Wally B    Mon Jun 14, 2010 15:45 
 31   How Far We've Come     Fred Johnston    Mon Jun 14, 2010 19:15 
 32   Writers and public engagement     Wally B    Tue Jun 15, 2010 03:51 
 33   The debate should begin     Fred Johnston    Tue Jun 15, 2010 14:24 
 34   Those summer schools     Wally B    Tue Jun 15, 2010 23:00 
 35   Post-Post-Post Modernism     Scientist.    Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:07 
 36   writers & society     Wally B    Thu Jun 17, 2010 00:27 
 37   The Wisdom of Solomon.     Scientist.    Fri Jun 18, 2010 21:20 
 38   fixed certainties can be moved     Wally B    Sun Jun 20, 2010 00:35 
 39   'Easing' the blockade? - was all lies, as usual     Anti-Semanticism    Sun Jun 20, 2010 15:41 
 40   comments     non-voter    Sun Jun 20, 2010 15:45 
 41   They will Run away Scared.     Skibbereen Eagle Man    Sun Jun 20, 2010 19:54 
 42   threat of war     non_voter    Sun Jun 20, 2010 21:21 
 43   Write on     opus diablos    Mon Jun 21, 2010 13:15 


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