Fighting Words: Roddy Doyle’s writing centre opens in Dublin
Roddy Doyle’s much anticipated creative writing centre. Fighting Words, has gone online prior to its opening in Dublin in January. Taking its inspiration from David Eggers’ 826 Valencia, the centre pairs volunteer professional writers with local children. It doesn’t mention the fact explicitly, but the subtext here is that one-on-one mentoring can help revive a deprived quarter of a city.
Doyle’s centre is the first European member of the Once Upon a School movement that has swept across the deprived cities of America. It is beautifully inspiring stuff. For more on this see Eggers’ (very funny) speech at Ted Conference earlier this year.
Orlaith Griffin, 
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[...] Their Creative Writing? Through some emails with Eli Horowitz, editor of McSweeney’s, found out about Fighting Words, the Irish answer to 826. I’ve been a bit obsessed with 826 today – [...]
Kathy Hall 4:11 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink |
Roddy Doyle will be in San Francisco on Sept 17th, 2010 , to talk about ‘Fighting Words’, it is open to the public, all proceeds to go Ireland’s Fighting Words, If anyone is interested please join us!! details available at http://www.ILHSsf.org (Irish Literary & Historical Society of SF Bay Area). Cheers, K
Orlaith Griffin 9:07 pm on November 16, 2011 Permalink |
Hello Fighting Words,
I am Orlaith Griffin.I came to your place in Dublin with my class from Balrothery National School.It was one the best days of my life!!!Thank you so much for the experience.The book we wrote was amazing!!!My entire family loved it!!!