The White Bear

Jun 21, 2025 | Features

My review of The White Bear by Henrik Pontoppidan, translated by Paul Larkin, was published in today’s Irish Examiner (21 June, 2025). Here is the review: The novels and short stories of Pontoppidan, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917, reflect Danish...

Eventual Redemption

Jan 28, 2025 | Greenisland Press News

Writer, poet and ecopsychologist Anthony Hegarty’s review of Longlines by Caoilte Breatnach is published both here at Greenisland Press and on Caoilte’s website. -oo0oo- JJ Hynes, a veteran of the Troubles in Derry and Belfast, has sacrificed his life, marriage,...

What is ‘Say Nothing’ for?

Jan 20, 2025 | Features

The Irish-American writer Tim O’Grady recently wrote a review for the website of the current affairs magazine, Byline, which was also published by the Belfast Media Group and the Andersonstown News. His review was a forensic analysis of the television series, Say...

‘A Spiritual Act, A Holy Deed’

Dec 15, 2024 | Features

I wrote this tribute to Native American Indian Leonard Peltier in 2003 as he entered his twenty-eighth year of imprisonment. I included the feature in my 2004 book, Rebel Columns, and sent Leonard a signed copy with a personalised dedication but the prison authorities...

Rita – A Memoir

Aug 23, 2024 | Greenisland Press News

The most recent publication by Greenisland Press, Rita—A Memoir, was launched during Féile an Phobail in West Belfast to an audience of almost four hundred people on 3 August in St Mary’s University College. Gerry Adams chaired the proceedings and guest speakers...