CWA Christmas Party

Debate, University College Cork Law Society

Anglo-Israel Association Annual Dinner, Savoy

Detection Club dinner

Launch at King's College of Belfast and Derry in Revolt: a new history of the troubles

Co-operation Ireland Annual Gala Dinner, Dorchester

Magna Cum Murder, Muncie, Indiana

Ruth in Muncie with Brownie the skunk

Panellist at Guildford Literary Festival

Dublin launch of The Widest Circle: Remembering Michael Sweetman

Dublin launch of Garret Fitzgerald's last book

Interview at Athlone Literary Festival

Launch at King's College of John Bew's Castlereagh

Radio 2, Jeremy Vine show, interview re Martin McGuinness

CWA London meeting

Launch at Policy Exchange of John Bew's Castlereagh

Participant in BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday Sequence, discussing Martin McGuinnessís candidacy for the Irish presidency

Speech in Cambridge about the republican tradition of physical force to meeting of the TCD alumni association

Economist summer party

Launch of Michael Richmond's Sisyphusa

Interview on BBC Radio Ulster

Interview on attitudes towards immigration on BBC 1's Sunday Morning Live

Irish Embassy launch of Documents in Irish Foreign Policy

At Goldsboro Books for launch of Linda Regan's Brotherhood of Blades

At Policy Exchange to hear discussion of Shiraz Maherís Ties that Bind: How the story of Britainís Muslim Soldiers can forge a national identity

Joined counter-protest outside Royal Albert Hall against those calling for the boycott of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

In discussion on Irish history and politics on Coleman at Large on Newstalk

Crime Writers' Association summer party

Being conferred at Queen's with honorary doctorate – read and watch the speech

RTE Pat Kenny Show, discussion about the Gaza Flotilla

BBC Ulster: panellist on Sunday Sequence

Interviewed on ZDF German TV and Sky News about the Belfast riots

Bromley Literary Festival, Chairing Crime Writers' Question Time — cancelled

Detection Club Dinner

I go to exhibitions for pleasure, but Tracey Eminís at the Hayward Gallery was for work. (I'm writing a satirical crime novel about conceptual art). Talentless and drearily solipsistic, it is beyond satire.

Chaired the valedictory lecture of Professor Liam Kennedy in Queenís University, Belfast

AGM, British Irish Association

RTE: On panel on Pat Kenny Show re Queen and Ireland

BBC Radio Scotland: Interview re Queen and Ireland

CWA Diamond Dagger awards

BBC Radio Wales: Interview re Queen and Ireland

BBC Radio Ulster: Nolan Show

Policy Exchange: At Policy Exchange for launch of Sir John Wilsey's The Ulster Tales: A Tribute to Those Who Served 1969-2000

Interview with Stephen Nolan on BBC Ulster about the Queen's visit

Interview with BBC Radio Wales about the bombs sent to Neil Lennon and two Celtic supporters

Interview with Sky News on the Omagh murder

Interview on Talkback, Radio Ulster, about documentary on the Orange sisterhood

Champ: St Patrick’s Day Reception House of Lords
St Patrick’s Day Reception, Irish Embassy

Participant in debate at Cork City Hall:  ‘MacCurtain and MacSwiney: A Legacy squandered or fulfilled?’

Participant in Val McDermid's 'Emerald Noir', on Radio 4, 11.30, read article in The Telegraph

Discussion at Policy Exchange: ‘After Munich: how should we develop a “muscular liberal” approach to Counter Extremism?’

Omagh appeal, Belfast

Discussion of CSC report Islamist Terrorism: The British Connections at ICSR, King’s College

Anglo-Israel dinner

Interview by Gavin Estler with Edna O'Brien on BBC Newsnight

Interview by Daisy McAndrew on ITV News at Ten

Interviewed on BBC 1 Jeremy Vine Show about whether the UK should help Ireland get out of the economic mire.

Irish Embassy, launch of Philip McDonagh's The Song the Oriel Sang

Launch of Martyn Frampton's The Legion of the Rearguard, Policy Exchange

Bouchercon, San Francisco

Carrie Porter lecture: The role of the media in post-conflict Northern Ireland, Museum of London

Memorial service for Alan Ruddock in St Brideís Journalistsí Church

British-Irish Association, Exeter College, Oxford

Interview on ITN Central News — Papal Controversy

8.50 am, interviewed with Jack Valero by William Crawley on BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday Sequence — read Will Crawley's BBC blog Will & Testament

Harrogate Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival: Awarded the CWA Non Fiction Gold Dagger for Aftermath

Interviewed by Matt Cooper on RTE's Last Word (with Martin Ferris) on invitation to Queen Elizabeth to visit Ireland

Today Programme (Radio 4) interview re Bloody Sunday Inquiry

BBC News 24 interview re the Bloody Sunday Inquiry

CrimeFest Bristol: On panel Down in the Sewer: Violence, Language and Sex (21st, 10.10-11.00). Also speaking at ‘In the Spotlight’ on: Making fun of Islam: should crime writers fear to offend or go for the jugular? See the write up 'My friend Ayo Onatade and the PC patronisers'.

Discussion with Niall Crowley on RTE's Pat Kenny show.

Royal Irish Academy: speaker at seminar on Journalism and the Dictionary of Irish Biography

New Culture Forum: Pascal Bruckner, author of The Tyranny of Guilt – An Essay in Western Masochism.

Orwell Prize 2010 Shortlist Debate: ‘Has the political class been fatally weakened?’: Thomson Reuters, Carnary Wharf

Abergevanny: Crime Writers’ Annual Conference

Glasgow Aye Write! Book Festival:  discussion with Stuart Neville on writing on Ireland and the Troubles

Ennis Book Club Festival: ‘Reading History’ symposium: panellist with Tim Pat Coogan, Diarmuid Ferriter and Eoghan Harris

Panelist at Institute of Ideas debate at Graveney School: ‘Religion and Politics: is faith a force for change or conservatism'
Policy Exchange:  John Creaney Memorial Lecture

Intelligence Squared debate: Europe is failing its Muslims

With Sean O’Callaghan, speaking to post-graduate war studies students in King’s College, London, about the nature of dissent.

Law Society, University College Cork. Opposing the motion: ‘That this House believes that Islam is not a threat to the West’. 

Read the report of the debate by Daniel O'Carroll

http://donnchacuttriss.blogspot.com/
This helpful blogger has written a fair – if slightly expurgated – account of my debate in Cork on Islam with Dr Azzam Tamimi.  He and I did not get on.

Panellist with Claire Fox, Clifford Longley and Kenan Malik on The Moral Maze, 8.00pm BBC Radio 4.

Interview on BBC News 24 about Northern Ireland

On RTE's Sunday Forum discussing climate change

Town and Gown, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana: a talk on the aftermath of the Omagh Bombing

Bouchercon 2009, Indianapolis:  3.00pm: Participant in the Continuous Conversation with Sophie Hannah and Brendan DuBois

Bouchercon 2009, Indianapolis:  4.30pm:  IRISH CRIME IN FACT AND FICTION
A discussion of how the same subject – Ireland – is treated in fiction and in non-fiction, focusing on the constraints and freedoms offered by each approach.
Kathryn Kennison (M), Ruth Dudley Edwards, Stuart Neville

BBC Radio 4: The Moral Maze

Books 2009 Dublin: Moderating 'In Cold Blood - the art of true crime writing'

interview on Talk Europe Radio

Sherlock Holmes Pub: CWA summer party

BBC2 Jeremy Vine: discussing assisted suicide

BBC Northern Ireland: Sunday Sequence.

Harrogate Crime Festival (23–26 July 2009): Chairing Emerald Noir panel; participants Declan Hughes, Gene Kerrigan, Ava McCarthy and Brian McGilloway

Heffers, Cambridge:  Bodies in the Bookshop – authors meeting readers

Dublin: Interviews with Ireland AM Breakfast TV on TV3; Pat Kenny on RTE Radio 1; Sean Moncrieff on Newstalk ; Tom McGurk on 4FM; and Matt Cooper on The Last Word on Today FM

Participated in an hour-long discussion on Patrick Pearse on Talking History, on Newstalk, an independent Irish national radio station.  

Bantry, County Cork: West Cork Literary Festival.  Readings from some of my satirical crime novels and talking about Aftermath.

Interview: Talk Radio Europe

Launch party for Ruth's new book Aftermath - the Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice hosted by Policy Exchange at Ideas Space, Clutha House, Westminster, London.

Dublin: Opened ‘Threshold’, an exhibition of paintings by Dymphna Headen

Bristol: 12.00-1.00: Chaired ‘Born to Kill’ and participated in ‘Lighter than Noir’.

CrimeFest, Bristol

Gore Hotel, London: CWA Diamond Dagger party

Lincoln: Crime Writers Association annual conference

Today with Pat Kenny:  Radio 1, rte.ie Ruth debated commonwealth membership with Noel Dorr. The segment starts 24 minutes into the show and lasts for 12 minutes.

Law Society UCD:  Proposing: ‘That this House regrets the 1916 Rising’

Launch: Nick Cohen’s Waiting for the Etonians

Memorial party: Marjorie Deane

New Culture Forum: Jonah Goldberg on Liberal Fascism

Peace in Israel and Gaza demonstration, Trafalgar Square

University College Cork Philosophical Society debating against Minister Martin Mansergh the motion ‘That this house believes that the 1916 Easter Rising was immoral’

Speaker at the annual seminar of The Association of Jewish Women’s Oranisations in the UK

'Free speech, jihad and the future of western civilization': a conference on libel tourism.  The panels included Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Theodore Dalrymple and Mark Steyn.

Participant in Sunday Independent Book Festival, Trinity College Dublin. See Independent web review, and Grab your chance to hatch a plot with top writers, Sunday Independent, 31 August 2008, and Irish crime stories, Herald HQ, 4 September 2008

Read about it on crimealwayspays.blogspot.com and A great literary meeting of criminal minds at Books 08

Royal Society, 50 Things you need to know about history

Omagh commemoration

Omagh commemoration

Heffer’s Bookshop, Cambridge: annual ‘Bodies in the Bookshop’, where readers meet authors. See 'Getting away with Murder', by Mike Ripley.

Panellist on ‘Let’s Talk’, BBC Ulster TV

*NEWSFLASH*

CrimeFest, Bristol

Murdering Americans won the Last Laugh award at CrimeFest!

Interview on Ronnie Biggs on the John Gaunt Show on Talk Sport