Ubuntu Learner tracks my adventure as a new user, newbie, noobie, in Ubuntu.
Adventure begun January 1st, 2007, with flavour Edgy Eft.
These notes were originally a collection of links, which quickly became too awkward to manage, so I’ve reverted to the blog format to keep track of things.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Philip Casey was born to Irish parents in London in 1950 and grew up in Co Wexford.
His publications include a chapbook, The Planets and Stars
Become Friends, (Gorey, The Funge Arts Centre, 1974); and three collections of verse: Those Distant Summers (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1980); After Thunder (Raven Arts Press, 1985); and The Year of the Knife Poems 1980-1990, (Raven Arts Press Dublin, 1991).
A fourth collection, Dialogue in Fading Light, was published by New Island Books in November
2005.
His play Cardinal, was performed in Hamburg in 1990.
He has published three novels,
The Fabulists (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1994/ London,Serif Books, 1995);
The Water Star (London, Picador, 1999); and The Fisher Child (Picador, 2001), which completes The Bann River Trilogy.
Die Träumer von Dublin, the German translation of The Fabulists, was published by btb/Goldmann Verlag, Munich, in 1999.
He has been a recipient of an Arts Council/An Chomairle Éalaíon Bursary for Literature, and was awarded the inaugural Kerry Ingredients/ Listowel Writers’ Week Novel of the Year Award (1995) for The Fabulists .
A member of Aosdána, he initiated and maintains the web sites Irish Writers Online,
A Guide to Irish Culture,
and his personal site which you are now reading.
He lives in Dublin, Ireland.
NB. Both the novel The Fabulists and my last poetry collection are available for free (under a Creative Commons license) at Irish Literary Revival, a sister site of PhilipCasey.com, co-founded by poet Patrick Chapman and Philip Casey.
ABOUT Ubuntu Learner
Ubuntu Learer is part of Philip Casey’s website.
philipcasey.com is his homepage.
The other sections are
Slimming for the Beach - general news and blog.
Irish Literary Revival This is where out-of-print and out-of-circulation Irish books are brought back into the world. Although our name is a pun, our intentions are serious….
Irish Culture Guide a collection of about 500 links to websites of Irish Cultural interest.
alternative party - no, not a political party but I site I use to tease out certain ideas about the future of Irish political and eco life.
Irish Writers Online with about 550 pages, a concise bio-bibliographical record of Irish writers
