The Underground Prison Press

Sep 16, 2024 | Greenisland Press News

Former blanket man and H-Block prisoner, Eoghan Mac Cormaic’s latest book, Captive Columns, was recently reviewed by Kevin Mullan in the Derry Journal. Here is the review: Eoghan ‘Gino’ Mac Cormaic’s new history of the underground prison press provides an...

Hugo Hamilton

Sep 3, 2024 | Greenisland Press News

Award-winning writer and playwright Hugo Hamilton has praised this first novel from Caoilte Breatnach. Hugo wrote: ‘Longlines is a powerful encounter with recent Irish history. A thrilling novel of escape and redemption. An IRA man on the run from the past returns to...

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...

‘A Little Gem’

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...

Gritty and Realistic

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...