Audio Clip – THE WRONG MAN

Jan 18, 2026 | Latest

Hoking through an old box in the loft yesterday I came across a CD. It was an audio recording of my play, ‘The Wrong Man’, made during rehearsals in Hammersmith, before the play was performed at the Pleasance Theatre in London in March, 2005 (it was also performed in...

Interview with Belfast Telegraph

Dec 1, 2025 | Latest

Following the publication of my memoir, All The Dead Voices, I did a wide-ranging interview with Ciarán Dunbar for the Belfast Telegraph podcast which went online today (1 December, 2025). We discussed my upbringing, my days as a republican activist and imprisonment,...

BLESS ME FATHER

Aug 26, 2025 | Latest

Former IRA prisoner Pat Magee reviews the recently published and highly-acclaimed memoir, Bless Me Father—A Life Story by the singer/songwriter, Kevin Rowland. -oo0oo- The Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, 29 April 2016. I’m attending Imagining Ireland,...

ALL THE DEAD VOICES

Aug 3, 2025 | Greenisland Press News, Latest

My updated memoir, All The Dead Voices, was launched last Friday, 1 August, in the courtyard of Glór na Móna, Ballymurphy, in front of an audience of about one hundred people. The event—part of Féile an Phobail—was chaired by veteran republican Liam Stone. One of the...

NORAID: Irish America and the IRA

Jul 16, 2025 | Latest

Ciaran Quinn, Sinn Féin Representative to North America, here reviews the RTÉ documentary, NORAID: Irish America and the IRA. The first part was broadcast last Wednesday and the final episode goes out tonight  at 21.25. Both can also be viewed now on the RTÉ Player....

O’Casey Revisited

Oct 11, 2024 | Latest

An abbreviated version of this feature has already appeared online but this is a much fuller piece by the Galway-based lecturer and writer, Jenny Farrell, who is also an Associate Editor of Culture Matters. The sixtieth anniversary of Seán O’Casey’s death fell on 18...