I was temporarily banned from Twitter for ‘hate speech’ for quoting Mark Twain’s 1905 pamphlet ‘King Leopold’s Soliloquy’ that argued that King Leopold of the Belgians (1835 –… Read more “Blocked on Twitter”
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The HistWriter May Newsletter
An update on my second novel, now titled ‘The Piano Player’; also the Wexford Bohemian Issue 3, Laina West’s second novel ‘The Unnamed’, and Aoife Rose O’Brien’s… Read more “The HistWriter May Newsletter”
The HistWriter March Newsletter
In The HistWriter March 2022 I feature writing about Ukraine and mark International Women’s Day.
December 2021 Newsletter: Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace.
This month I’m agonising over the blurb for my forthcoming novel City of Famine. I share a few observations on the Bellotto exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery.… Read more “December 2021 Newsletter: Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace.”
The tree of knowledge
For Remembrance Day, a story about the Eastern Front: set in Mesopotamia, now Iraq, where the Garden of Eden became a theatre of war. https://wp.me/P2aHMc-g4
Spammers beware…
Having set up a writers’ forum for my local writing group here on this website, I am now besieged with spam registration requests, which I nuke every… Read more “Spammers beware…”
The HistWriter October Newsletter
This month I reflect on a small writing workshop I’m holding with my local writing group and introduce two writers you may not have heard of: Cheryl… Read more “The HistWriter October Newsletter”
The HistWriter May 2021
This month in ‘The HistWriter Newsletter’: my ‘Neighbours from the Bronze Age’ and ‘The Irish Bookshop Show’ produced by writers and readers in Wexford. I also feature… Read more “The HistWriter May 2021”
Peace Walls: a short story written in 2012
When I wrote Peace Walls in 2012 I did not foresee peace in Northern Ireland unravelling and hoped that time would bring healing. Free to read on… Read more “Peace Walls: a short story written in 2012”
The HistWriter April 2021
The April issue of The HistWriter newsletter comes to you from Wexford in Ireland. This month I look at Wexford’s links to the first invasion of Ireland… Read more “The HistWriter April 2021”