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...
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...
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...
Oct 18, 2024 | Features
Martin Neary’s book, Madogue Memories, about his life in east Mayo, the perennial toil of maintaining the land, his having to seek work in England to support his small holding, is told with great humility and charm but with a certain melancholia. In his evocative...
Jul 11, 2024 | Features
Jake Mac Siacais* reviews Greenisland Press’s recently-published novel, McCoubrey, set in Portadown just before and after the introduction of internment in 1971. WHEN asked by my good friend Danny Morrison to review Mark B McCaffery’s debut novel, McCoubrey, I...
Jul 7, 2024 | Features
Longlines, the new novel by Galway author Caoilte Breathnach, is a book which straddles several genres, telling a story which is at times gritty, realistic, and at other times speculative. Layered through it all is a shrewd eye for detail and a finely-tuned ear for...
