Essays
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
Late Blossoming
A moving poetic exploration of impermanence and mortality
The Attic Tarantino
The innovator Euripides puts the heedless Greek gods on the stage
The Story from Below
The Irish working class’s long search for its voice to be heard in literature
People Like Us
Progressivism’s dirty secret: the left intellectuals abolish the poor
Intimate Oscillations
A poet’s odyssey ‑ from Dublin suburbs out into the world and back
Pagans, Snobs, Censors
Irish visual art and the vaunted uniqueness of our ‘spiritual heritage’
Intellectual Insurrection
The extraordinary range and tireless radical commitment of Edward Said
Not Like The Others
A pitch-perfect depiction of life as a teenage girl in 1980s Britain
The Pleasure Principle
A poet born to wealth and privilege whose gift miraculously survived
The World’s Doubleness
From the natural world to the grit and banality of everyday life
The Ghost Hunters
A literary treatment set in Florida of the classic ‘hero’s quest’ story
Belonging
The changing face of Ireland and the forces who are combating change
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