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[…]
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.
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. ❤️
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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 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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
It’s Jack Kerouac’s centenary this month. I was on Arena, RTE Radio 1 last night, talking about the life and work. Listen back here: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22076776/
Our track Rise Again, from the album Cursed Murphy Versus the Resistance, appears in the upcoming Channel 5 drama The Holiday, based on TM Logan’s bestselling novel of the same name. The series is directed by the brilliant Laura Way, and also features music from fellow Wexfordian ODi. The Holiday[…]
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