Apr 16, 2013 | Latest
Was interviewed by William Crawley last weekend on BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence about my new novel Rudi – In The Shadow of Knulp, and how and when I became an atheist, though my main character Rudi is a man who relies on and ‘talks’ to God! Link here (might take...
Mar 25, 2013 | Latest
Appeared at Scribes, a literary event organised by the Cork Life Long Learning Festival, last Friday in Spailpín Fánach on South Main Street. It was organised by Tina Neylon and was chaired by the irrepressible raconteur Seamus Hosey, former producer in the Features...
Mar 20, 2013 | Latest
Last Saturday (16th March) I spoke at an event in County Donegal, to commemorate Kevin Brady who was killed twenty-five years ago during the funerals of the three IRA Volunteers killed in Gibraltar. Good turn-out. Very emotional. 15th March. Introduced Senator David...
Mar 8, 2013 | Latest
Finished The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth, a hilarious, intelligent book about the lost words of the English language! Forsyth is the author of the 2011 best seller The Etymologicon. Here are just some of my favourites! Culf – the bed fluff that lodges in your navel....
Feb 20, 2013 | Latest
Finished ‘Weimar Culture – The Outsider as Insider’ by Peter Gay. Doesn’t really get into its stride until about page 50 or thereafter. On the influence of poetry Gay writes: “If right-wing nationalists had their poets, so did the Social Democrats. And if...
Jan 9, 2013 | Latest
My royal sixtieth birthday today! And to celebrate they hoisted the wrong flag on the City Hall! But it was the thought that counts. Lots of wonderful presents from my wife and family, including The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte...
