Here are the first five pages of my book. If you like them, why not go ahead and buy it?

    Conall Donoghue sours his porridge with at least two lemons. I know it because I can see into his kitchen from my kitchen, and I can see him pounding away with that spoon, eating his oul porridge under his light-bulb of a morning, or plunging his...

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Do you know what happened to Deirdre?

Deirdre of the Sorrows  It's one of the most famous tales in Irish mythology, but so many Irish people don't know  anything about it. It's like a cross between Rapunzel and True Romance, Bonny and Clyde and the little mermaid, only it's hundreds of years older and much...

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How to tell if you're in a Patricia Highsmith novel.

How to tell if you're in a Patricia Highsmith novel.You happen upon someone from an especially wealthy background, much less deserving than you of such luxury. This happens weekly.Your knowledge of classical culture, from delighting in Leider by Schubert to correct appraisals of 50s American expressionism is shared...

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There isn’t any science to any of it.

We found Black dead drunk slumped over his desk the Tuesday morning. Bottle of compound beer emptied by his screen and several more rolled off to other places. People crammed into the room to see and right away began trying to bring him to. I said: "Why not...

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Samuel Beckett's style.

You leave both your albums at home, I said, the small one as well as the large one. Not a word of reproach, a simple prophetic present, on the model of those employed by Youdi. Your son goes  with you, I went out. This, excerpt from ‘Molloy’, might...

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WB Yeats and what we talk about when we talk about Ireland.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel and Fionn McCumhail has precious little to do with the price of onions. You’re probably never more Irish than when you’re stuck watching windscreen wipers on the commute home, listening to Sean Moncrieff. But if someone were to ask you...

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