In this powerful long essay, originally published in the London review of Books and now expanded, Ir

Kane is struggling to find a way out of ‘the second prison’, a way of taking control of his life

Victor Kelly is an artist of sorts - a man who transfigures other men, whose victims are etched with

In January 1854, one of the lean and terrible years following the Great Famine in Ireland, a new lan

from the collection W9 & Other Lives

From the collection W9 & Other Lives.

A moving memorial to Sam’s brother Mart who died when the Kenbane Head was sunk by a German battle