Being A Speaker Of Modern Irish Who Engages With Earlier Literature Is Just Shouting 'leathan Le Leathan

Had some film developed recently. A few hikes from the summer, namely around the Mournes and in Wicklow. A bonus photo of my friend Roberta on top of the well rock in Dunino Den in Fife – a powerful and ancient place that you could drive right past without ever knowing was there! The area was clearly of significance to the Picts given the carved stone footprint beside the natural well, the Pictish stone and the stairs hewn out of the rock itself. It's a beautiful area. Go if you ever get the chance!

Nobody prepares you for the sheer horror that is the last month of your PhD

Aimsir Press

Lúnasa 2023 — Aimsir Press

Aimsir: A Seasonal Journal (Lúnasa 2023) is now available to read online.

Over the moon to be able to share this essay on the seriously overlooked work of Meath poet Francis Ledwidge.

The thing about lotr is that it spends so much time on describing trees because it’s actually about trees. And it’s also about languages and stories and songs and that’s why the songs are in there

It doesn’t make sense to say that Tolkien should have cut back on describing these things because all of them are part of the fundamental core of what lotr is and what it’s trying to do. It’s—fundamentally—just a poem about trees

Women's Prize for Fiction

The 2022 Discoveries shortlist! - Women's Prize for Fiction

We are delighted to introduce you to the writers on the Discoveries 2022 shortlist. The Discoveries programme, run by the...

So shocked and unbelievably delighted to be shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction's Discoveries 2022 Award!!!

If anyone wants to know how the final months of my phd are going, I spent five hours yesterday evening listening to Dies Irae on repeat while translating and cross-comparing nineteenth century translations of early modern Irish texts just to adjust A SINGLE SENTENCE in my thesis.

Albero di Limone available in Sonder Issue IV

the butcher. the ripper. the surgeon.

the Haruspex

Don't tell Twitter, but this week I graduated from St. Andrews and am now officially a Doctor of Philosophy! My thesis looked at Gaelic mythology and its relationship with national identity in modern Irish and Scottish literature (including Irish language texts). Humanities ftw!

Comhghairdeas mór to my superhero of a supervisor Pàdraig MacAoidh (Peter Mackay) who was also appointed as the Makar of Scotland this week! So very deserved.

Brigid of Spring | Draíocht