May 12, 2022 | Features
My review of Dolly Parton’s debut novel (in collaboration with James Patterson) was published in the Weekend Supplement of the Irish Examiner, 7 May. Here it is: A vagabond waif, a young woman with a gun in her bag, walks into a Nashville dive, The Cats Paw...
Apr 28, 2022 | Features
Among all the protagonists to the recent conflict in the North there is one side, above all others, which urgently needs to ‘draw a line through the past’, as if that were ever possible. It’s not that it seriously believes that the stroke of a pen or a piece of...
Mar 31, 2022 | Latest
My review of Catherine Kirwan’s new novel, set in Cork, was published earlier by the Irish Examiner. Here it is. What I loved about this fast-paced crime novel was the intimacy of the narration: our access to the rationale, doubts, and suspicions of Cork...
Feb 14, 2022 | Latest
Joe Dwyer, Sinn Féin’s representative in Britain, based in the party’s London Office, reviews veteran republican Maire comerford’s memoir, edited by Hilary Dully.* I first discovered Máire Comerford when I was probably fifteen or sixteen and first watched Kenneth...
Feb 11, 2022 | Features
My review of The Raptures by Jan Carson was first published in last Saturday’s Irish Examiner. Here it is: BALLYLACK, a one-street village, orbiting an Antrim market town, ‘a bit of a shithole’, home to half a dozen Protestant churches and the God-fearing, and...
