Publication: ‘1980’

Steve Barbaro was kind enough to ask me to publish a short story in the sixth issue of his avowedly distinct literary journal / zine / website new_sinews, I recommend you take an hour or two to rattle around in its archives this weekend in order to remind yourself what some people are still interested in having literature do. This is always a healthy exercise.

The story is called ‘1980’, you can read it here, it’s an attempt to do justice to Irish politics.

Direct thanks due of course to Steve, as well as Odrán, TMITBP and xenorealisms, who all read this in draft, indirect thanks due to Alan Kinsella and Brian Hanley.

Podcast: Rupture Radio

The good people at Rupture Radio had me on to put a few questions to Bill Rolston and Robbie McVeigh about their monumental study of colonialism in Ireland, ”Anois ar teacht an tSamhraidh’: Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution‘.

You can listen to the podcast here and read my review of their book which appeared on Liberated Texts here.

Many thanks to the good people at Rupture Radio for having me on, I recommend going through their back catalogue for any other episodes you might be interested in listening to.

Publication: Rupture Magazine

An article I wrote on neo-colonialism in Ireland was published in Rupture Magazine copies of which you can obtain here.

There’s other great articles in here on the history of colonialism as well as the Irish language, so I recommend you pick it up.

Thanks to the people at Rupture for publishing.