Essays
Sweating the Asset
The rise of private monopolies in the wake of the Thatcher ‘revolution’
The Road to Justice
The long fight for recognition of the Magdalene laundries survivors
Longing for Flight
Time on our hands: the locked-down poet raids memories of past travel
How much is enough?
Is a chapbook more likely to work as an organic whole than a full collection?
In That Dawn
The carefree days before Belfast became the capital of the Troubles
Vibrating Still
A poem where language is put behind bars and called upon to account for itself
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
The Pathfinder
The megalomania of the leader of Peru’s genocidal Maoist revolutionaries
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
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