Essayist and columnist · Dublin · a commonplace book of ten working years
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I write a weekly column and long essays, and I have kept both up for 10 years without missing a deadline. My column runs to about 900 words and reaches roughly 140,000 print and digital readers. I also edit other people's essays, around 40 a year, which keeps my own prose honest.
"Keep a book of what strikes you, and in time it will tell you who you are." · copied from an old writing manual, author forgotten
Weekly print and digital column, "Small Hours," Dublin
Long-form essays on work, walking, and the Irish coast
"An observation is worth nothing until you have written it down twice: once badly, once well." · overheard at a workshop in Galway, 2017
Small essay and memoir imprint, Dublin
Education. B.A. English Literature, Rathgorman College, Dublin, 2010 – 2014. First class honours; thesis on the Victorian commonplace book, naturally.
Teaching. Evening essay workshop at the Stoneybatter Writers' Room since 2021: 6 weeks, 12 seats, always full.
Selected work. Essays in 5 anthologies; a monthly radio letter on Clarion FM Dublin, 8 minutes, 34 episodes so far.
Habits of use. Shorthand at 90 words a minute. Archival research. Interviewing people who claim they have nothing to say.
"Work is a long conversation with your own earlier drafts." · my own, and I stand by it
references, clippings, and the good pen available on request
found on Bull Island, Nov.