Professor Van Ikin penned a farewell to Ireland at ‘The Conversation’,<\/a> including his recall of an early meeting with Ireland:<\/p>\n As a young Sydney Uni postgrad in 1976, I met Ireland in his tiny Sydney writing pad and inadvertently opened a door to an empty low-lit room. The floor was carpeted with card-sized slips of paper, some of which fluttered up and relocated upon my entry.<\/p>\n \u201cSorry, not that door,\u201d said Ireland, and proceeded to explain that his novels evolved from scenes and images, each jotted onto a card. (The Unknown Industrial Prisoner is composed of 330 of these.) He would arrange and rearrange them on the floor, mosaic-style, in a process that was allowed to take however long was needed.<\/p>\n Saddened to learn of David Ireland’s death last month. He was awarded the Miles Franklin Award on three occasions, for his novels ‘The Unknown Industrial Prisoner’ (1971), ‘The Glass Canoe’ … Continue reading “Vale David Ireland”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[84,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland-david","category-miles-franklin-award"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"The](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/1\/1c\/The_Unknown_Industrial_Prisoner.jpg\")
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