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Dave Duggan is a novelist and dramatist born in London, raised in Waterford, and living in Derry. He is the author of the novels The Greening of Larry Mahon (Guildhall Press, 2004), A Sudden Sun (Guildhall Press, 2012), and Makaronik (Cló Iar Chonnacht, 2018). His film work includes the Oscar nominated Dance Lexie Dance (Raw Nerve Productions, 1996). Dave’s theatre work has played throughout Ireland and in Edinburgh, Liverpool, New York and Afghanistan. His fourth novel, Oak and Stone, is published by Merdog Books (2019).

Film Review

Watching ’12 Years a Slave’

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The watcher sees the film begin with a failed act of writing. All through the film, there are attempts at writing; attempts at getting letters out. Words are vital in the film. Texts from the Bible are read by a benevolent slave-owner as…