I'm delighted to have my poem "Some Thing" in Washing Windows III: Irish Women Write Poetry. This poem takes a look at an imagined experience of an older Irish woman in the War of Independence and is told from the point of view of her son. Thank you to editors Alan Hayes and Nuala O'Connor … Continue reading Washing Windows III Ed: Alan Hayes and Nuala O’Connor (Arlen House: Dublin, 2023)
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I was delighted to be featured on the Irish Universities Association #TwoTalk2 Series. This is a video series developed by the Irish Universities Association where Director General Jim Miley talks to a guest for two minutes. Jim asks me about teaching creative writing and Mantles (Arlen House, 2021). https://youtu.be/AOeN_4DKacs #TwoTalk2 Director General Jim Miley interviews … Continue reading #TwoTalk2: Creative Writing, Teaching and Learning
Catherine, You are very welcome to my Writers Chat series. We’re here to discuss A Name For Himself first published in 1988 and re-issued this year as part of the Arlen Classic Literature Series. I finished reading the novel on the same weekend that The Irish Times published Stolen Lives, a heart-stopping report on the … Continue reading Writers Chat 55: Catherine Dunne on “A Name For Himself” (Arlen Classic Literature: Dublin, 2022)