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I love giving Creative Writing workshops. I love the mix of enthusiasm and optimism that surrounds all of those who walk through the door on the first morning. There is usually a whiff of fear in [...]

Back in the early 1980’s, I saw Frank McGuinness’s play ‘Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme’, an exploration of the lives of eight Ulster Protestants set against the backdrop [...]

‘I think,’ said Eimear McBride, ‘that the noise of sex in the world is very loud – and none of it is true.’

Maybe it’s all those years I spent as a teacher. Maybe it’s all those years I spent as a young pupil and a student. Maybe it’s because I’ve always preferred the Irish autumn to the Irish summer.