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WIRED OUR OWN WAY – autism anthology
Wired Our Own Way, out 28th March 2025, from New Island Books Pre-order now available. I’m honoured to have an essay about friendship (eek!) in this fab anthology of essays by autistic Irish adults, edited by Niamh Garvey. Description: Wired Our Own Way: An Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices is the first collection of personal…
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BRENDAN O’CONNOR SHOW & SUNDAY TIMES – SEABORNE
The link to my interview with Brendan O’Connor on RTÉ Radio 1 is HERE. We talked autism, sobriety, anxiety meds, secrets, Anne Bonny, and more. He was very nice and friendly and I enjoyed the chat. More chat from me in the Sunday Times yesterday – this time an essay I wrote about autism, tiny fictions,…
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PRESS – SEABORNE
We’ve had lots of great press for SEABORNE thanks to Peter O’Connell. I was here in the Irish Daily Mail talking about my love of mavericks, like Anne Bonny. There was last Saturday’s Irish Times Magazine interview with Niamh Donnelly. And last week’s wonderful Sunday Independent review by Lorraine Courtney: And today a fab review…
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FIBROMYALGIA ESSAY – HEAL
I have a short essay in HEAL (Humanism Evolving through Arts and Literature) about what it’s like to have fibromyalgia. HEAL is a medical narratives journal from the Dept of Medicine at Florida State University, edited by Tana Jean Welch and Liz Ruelke. ‘Fibromyalgia is a joyless, ever-present, prismic garment, complex and invisible.’ Download the…
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The County Measure – GALWAY
I’ll be on RTÉ Radio 1 on The County Measure, talking about colour in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, on 5th June – Bank Holiday Monday – between 11am and 12pm IST. The County Measure is a much-loved radio programme presented by writer and broadcaster Vincent Woods, who travels across Ireland exploring county identity in terms of…
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Switzerland, alcohol, autism, & me
I have a new essay ‘Cailín Deas, Cailín Dána’ published in Trasna today. The essay is about many things, including Switzerland, sibling loss, autism, giving up alcohol, Maria Edgeworth, and photographs…it’s a braided/hybrid piece, a mixumgatherum. You can read the essay here. Hope you enjoy it!
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NORA & OTHER EVENTS – LATE ’21
I have several events coming up, many around my novel NORA, which was published here in Ireland in April with New Island Books, so I thought I’d do a preview/round-up list: 12th Sep, 9am GMT: SUNDAY MISCELLANY: I’ll be on RTÉ Radio 1 on Sunday morning with a radio essay about my relationship with my…
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CREATIVE PLACES & FACES POD INTERVIEW
I had a lovely time being interviewed by Spain-based Irish author Jackie De Búrca. You can listen in to our chat here.