“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

Thursday, May 17, 2007

The King Is Dead, Long Live Colin Downey

Those krazy kids at the Irish Film Institute and their support for independent filmmaking flummery, eh? We're not sure what to expect from King for a Day, but we do know that it's the brainchild of Colin Downey, who's been working without funding with co-guerilla filmmaker Ivan Kavanagh for several years now. The 57-minute black-and-white, subtitled flick centres on 'a French-speaking mother and daughter living in an Irish townland supposedly perched on top of a New Jersey goldmine' and 'arrives by way of fabliaux, fairytales and Freud'. Erm, exsqueeze us? Anyhoo, King for a Day screens alongside Ivan Kavanagh's The Solution (71 minutes) on Monday, May 21. Sure, what else would you be doing? Pirates of the Caribbean doesn't open until the 24th ...

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