Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Skydiving
A poetic auto-fiction on migration, trauma and shifting identities
Losing the Plot
A book telling the story of a book that cannot be written – which is written
City Breakdown
Six days in Hamburg – a ‘weekend break’ and family reunion with a difference
Urban Shock
A moving meditation on a working class past from a London-Irish historian
Mindful Fictions
The relentless self-questioning of Emmanuel Carrère’s nonfictions
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