Fiction

Graignaspiddogue: A Setting in More Than A Muse

This is the opening chapter from A Life Before, a prequel to Her Secret Rose, which I published some years ago--and which has now morphed into a series of seven...

Fiction: Extract from A Life Before: Yearnings

This is extract is from A Life Before, a prequel to Her Secret Rose, which I published some years ago--and which has now morphed into a series of seven books,...

Friday Fiction: "Sparks of light." Novel Extra...

This is an extract from the first book in my Yeats-Gonne series, A Life Before This One, a biographical fiction series about Maud Gonne, her daughter Iseult and the poet,...

"Honor Bright": Extract from the novel A Life B...

This is an extract from the first book in my Yeats-Gonne series, A Life Before This One, a biographical fiction series about Maud Gonne, her daughter Iseult and the poet,...

W.B. Yeats and Maud Gonne: The Dublin Years

Last week I spoke on a panel at the 2025 Conference of the International Yeats Society: W.B. Yeats: Dubliner, at Trinity College Dublin, on the theme of 'Yeats and Maud...

Maud Gonne: An Emblem for Our Times

This is the final post about our 21-day kickstarter campaign to see a statue of Maud Gonne in Dublin. Normal transmission will resume next week. If you've been meaning to...