On the Town: Writers of stories about goings-on in foreign parts gathered to celebrate Travelling Light, published by Tivoli, this week. The collection of 32 travel stories was launched in Eason Hanna's bookshop on Dawson Street.
Gordon Linney, Church of Ireland Archdeacon of Dublin, told guests how money raised by sales of this book will go towards helping the children of Uganda.
Kisiizi hospital, which was established in 1958 in southwest Uganda by a young doctor named John Sharp, and was supported by an Anglican missionary society, is still servicing the community. It is located in an area where there are 20,000 AIDS orphans, said the archdeacon. The book, which was available at a smaller launch in his parish of St Paul's in Glenageary last week, sold out in 20 minutes, he said.
Contributors to Travelling Light, which is edited by Sarah Webb, include full-time writers Catherine Dunne, Marita Conlon-McKenna, Martina Devlin and Julie Parsons.
Others included Rosita Boland, of this newspaper, Olutyin Pamela Akinjobi from Nigeria, Cauvery Madhavan from India with her children Sagari (13), Rohan (11) and Maya (6) and Ho Wei Sim, a Chinese woman who was born in Malaysia, who was there with her husband, architect Donal Blake.