‘A highly charged and highly emotional memoir’

‘A highly charged and highly emotional memoir’

I was recently interviewed by Áine Toner, Features Editor of the Belfast Telegraph about my recently published memoir. Here is the text of the interview: Danny Morrison’s latest publication, an update to his 2002 release All The Dead Voices, celebrates the lives of...
Death of Brian Patten

Death of Brian Patten

Sorry to hear of the death of the Liverpool poet Brian Patten. I first met Brian in 1997. I’d been invited to a friend’s wedding in Valencia but a few days before the wedding the venue had been moved to Mojácar. The groom, my friend Tim O’Grady, because of the change...
The White Bear

The White Bear

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...
What is ‘Say Nothing’ for?

What is ‘Say Nothing’ for?

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’

‘A Spiritual Act, A Holy Deed’

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...
A man of immense peace and ease

A man of immense peace and ease

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...