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Patrick Kavanagh & Bookshop Windows
Beyond the fact that we both possessed Monaghan mothers and have roots in that “same stony grey soil”, I can think of no reason to…
Secrets Never Told
On the day David Marcus published my first short story in The Irish Press in 1976, when I was still a schoolboy in Finglas, I…
The Legendary John Sheahan
It was always a huge privilege and huge pleasure to share a stage with a true legend – the great John Sheahan: famous violinist, tin…
The questions writers ask themselves when halfway up a steep hill in the mist and rain, late at night in Portugal in January
For some reason foreign interviewers often ask if, at heart, I feel more like a novelist or more like a poet. It’s a question I…