The General

I’m sitting in a coffee shop called The General, in South Bend, Indiana. It’s February 2024. I live up the hill, in an apartment building called The Hill, with my wife, the choreographer and dance critic Róisín O’Brien. The Hill is halfway between The University of Notre Dame, where I have an office in the… Read More The General

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July 2023

This site needs some updates. It will get them. R2R started, long ago, as a sort-of-travel-blog, and there is some travelling coming up real soon. I’ll also probably get rid of / archive a lot of the older posts on here, so, er, get them while they’re cold. In the meantime, here are a couple… Read More July 2023

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Judging Books by Covers

https://contemporaryirishlit.wordpress.com/2021/05/21/reading-contemporary-irish-literature-cover-to-cover/ I have a …a piece? A few paragraphs. A segment! In this new compilarticle* from the truly excellent folks at Contemporary Irish Literature. It’s a nice piece and well worth a read (although I’ll have to come back to Taylor Allgeier-Follett’s bit on A Ghost in the Throat because it’s sitting on my to-read… Read More Judging Books by Covers

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From the Ashes: The Celtic Phoenix, Anna Burns’ “Milkman” and Sally Rooney’s “Normal People”

I’ve got a new piece, adapted from the ‘coda’ that concluded my PhD, published in Alluvium which is a journal I’ve long admired. It’s a very wee academic article so if you’d like to see the sort of thing I spent, oh, several years of my life furrowing my brow about, give it a look.… Read More From the Ashes: The Celtic Phoenix, Anna Burns’ “Milkman” and Sally Rooney’s “Normal People”

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