Winter Papers interview, RTE Guide
Our recent interview with the RTE Guide re this year’s Winter Papers anthology. Thank you Cormac Kinsella, PR wizard.
Culture Night So Say So
Got to break out some new poems with my friends @basciville at the Culture Night So Say So, @wexfordartscentre. Full house, amazing evening. Cheers to @sjswords for the invite. Photographs by @michaeldugganphotography
Casey’s Front Room
The good folks @caseysofwexford have asked me to do the honour of christening their brand new speakeasy/listening room/coffee nook/wine-bar snug with a reading this coming Sunday September 1st. I’ll be road-testing a ream of new poems. Admission is free for this introductory event, but numbers are limited, so you’ll need[…]
Kevin Barry, Write By the Sea
Very much looking forward to interviewing short story master, novelist and Winter Papers co-editor Kevin Barry at this year’s Write By The Sea festival on Sunday, September 29th.
Back at the ATN machine
Powerful words and music at our session with Richie Sadlier and David Keenan on the All Curious Minds stage at All Together Now. A pleasure to moderate. Well played all. ❤️
Twist: An American Girl
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Adele Bertei, Vivienne Dick, Cursed Murphy, in conversation.
Soooooo looking forward to moderating an in-conversation with downtown-and-beyond legends Adele Bertei and Vivienne Dick at the Temple Bar Gallery in Dublin on May 31. Here’s the skinny:“Adele’s memoir Twist is a revelatory and deeply personal account of queer history written from a working class perspective. Adele reveals what it’s[…]
Federal Hall (Live)
Federal Hall is one of the first pieces myself and Dan Comerford wrote together. Adapted from a short story named The Blacklight Ballroom (New Irish Short Stories, edited by Joseph O’Connor, Faber, 2011), it originates with an interview I did with filmmaker and writer Bill Carter, about how during the[…]
Anthony Bourdain, 20 years on.
Before he was a successful author and television star, Anthony Bourdain was a chef. Everyone knows this. His most famous book Kitchen Confidential applied gonzo journalism to the world of boiler room cuisine. I liked it a lot. So did many of the writers and musicians I knew. For whatever[…]
The Lost Alice, Cursed Murphy Versus the Resistance, all stripped down at Murphy’s Barn
From the Murphy’s Barn sessions, all stripped down. ‘The Lost Alice’ is a Cursed Murphy Versus the Resistance live favourite, our arrangement of a piece that originally appeared on the Revelator Orchestra album The Brotherhood of the Flood, adapted from a passage in my 2013 novel Shall We Gather at[…]
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