Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Going Georgian
Urban transformation and sectarian division in 18th century Ireland
The Pathfinder
The megalomania of the leader of Peru’s genocidal Maoist revolutionaries
Restless Angel
The greatest songwriter in the Irish tradition in the history of recording
Normal Girls
‘The Rooney Effect’: taking the affective temperature of the patriarchy
The Professional
An unequal combat between a divided, shambolic Britain and a united Europe
Back Stories
A miscellany of tales long and short from a career in Irish journalism
Written with Tears
An inspiring essay collection from inside the Travelling community
William’s World
Blake’s visions of Eden and the meaning of imagination in his verse
Yes We Can
An argument against pessimism and in support of deep human potential
The World Remade
A journey to motherhood, from miscarriage to the joy of birth
Surviving
Poems of strife and discovery that recall Swift, Behan and Durcan
University Pioneer
An Irish historian who encountered misogyny in her academic career