McCoubrey of Portadown

Oct 7, 2026 | Greenisland Press News

Mark McCaffery’s 2024 novel captures a moment in time: we see life in Garvaghy Road and the Tunnel in Portadown through the eyes of twelve-year-old Barry-Joe McCoubrey, beginning in 1971. On top of the challenges of growing adolescence Barry-Joe suddenly discovers...

Talkback Interview with Samuel Thompson

Oct 6, 2026 | Greenisland Press News

Greenisland Press author, Samuel Thompson, was interviewed for twenty minutes today (6 October) about his second novel, The Birthday Boys, and explains how it came to be published by Danny Morrison. His first novel Nights in Armour had been brought to publication with...

‘A grounded story of life’

Aug 28, 2026 | Greenisland Press News

Here, Glenn Bradley* reviews former RUC officer Sam Thompson’s new novel, The Birthday Boys. It tells the story of four childhood friends from a tough North Belfast neighbourhood during the Troubles. While many of their contemporaries drifted into loyalist...

Lost O’Flaherty Poem on McCaughey

Aug 14, 2026 | Features

A poem by Liam O’Flaherty on the hunger strike of Sean McCaughey was found and recently published by the historian Spencer J. Weinreich in the magazine Éire Ireland of the Irish-American Cultural Institute. Here, Eoghan Mac Cormaic, himself a writer on Irish political...

Gays & Republicanism

Jul 28, 2026 | Features

A new exhibition was launched at Áras Uí Chonghaile last week before going on the road. ‘Irish Republicans & The Gays – Cherishing All The Children of the Nation Equally’ is critical to understanding the evolution of modern Irish republicanism and the...