Aug 11, 2015 | Features
My friend the writer Timothy O’Grady has reached his crowd-funding target for his book about the children of Las Vegas. Below, he tells the story behind his writing the book. You can still subscribe to its publication and receive a variety of rewards: One day in a...
Aug 6, 2015 | Latest
Am about to introduce Scribes at the Rock with Henrietta McKervey, Stuart Carolan and the wonderful Marian Keyes! 6th August. Interviewed with Alan Kane on Radio Ulster’s Good Morning Ireland by Noel Thompson with regard to Jeremy Corbyn’s bid for the leadership of...
Jul 17, 2015 | Features
In 2006 I was speaking at the Writers on the Wall festival in Liverpool. When I came home I wrote this feature about prisoners, but which also mentions an attempt on the life of Lloyd George one hundred years ago. Here it is: Over breakfast at our hotel, Clive Hopwood...
Jun 17, 2015 | Latest
Doing a reading this Saturday, June 20th, at 6pm in the Lock Restaurant, Sallins, County Kildare, as part of the Wolfe Tone Festival. Come along. 8th June. Interviewed on the Nolan Show about James Galway’s earlier remarks that Ian Paisley bore a major responsibility...
Jun 17, 2015 | Features
John Hedges, editor of An Phoblacht interviewed me about the writing of West Belfast. The interview appears in the latest print edition of the newspaper. Here it is: A Story of a Community in Struggle Danny Morrison always wanted to be a novelist, from when he was...