Tag: letter
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THE BARRA BOY IN PARLIAMENT
It’s easy to be cynical about our current crop of political leaders, so it was a welcome surprise to have this letter pop through the door yesterday, from my local Member of Parliament, acknowledging ‘The Barra Boy’ and my recent event at the local library. Of all the places I thought The Barra Boy’s publication…
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THE HERETIC
The following writings were discovered during renovation work on the keep of Castle Uamhas in the far Western Isles, off the coast of Scotland. It was written on parchment that had been preserved hidden within the stonework of the walls, which have withstood the intolerable climate of those wild islands for more than a thousand…
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UNITED IN LOVE
‘Meet me at our favourite spot,’ she wrote two weeks ago. Today was the appointed time. She sat by the river watching the water rushing along, mirroring the tumult in her heart. Here they had first fallen in love, before circumstance and war had torn them apart. She lay on the grass, listening to the…
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H IS FOR DEN HAAG (THE HAGUE), NETHERLANDS
A LETTER OF HOPE FROM DEN HAAG (THE HAGUE), NETHERLANDS 28th July 1899, Den Haag, Netherlands My Darling Alix, I hope you are keeping well in my absence, and that our new arrival, Maria Nikolaevna is not giving you sleepless nights. I long to be back with you and our girls in the Motherland and…
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BRAVE
A film review with a bit of a difference: a letter, reprinted below, published in the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound magazine (November 2012 edition, edited slightly by the journal). I wrote them in response to a largely positive review from Thirza Wakefield, of Disney Pixar’s Brave. Whither Pixar? It’s not so much the…
Iain Kelly 