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Posted on November 29, 2018March 17, 2019

Poem: Magheragallon

A while back I posted a link to Non-Binary Review’s call for submissions for pieces inspired directly by Dante’s Inferno. Unfortunately (or not) my own efforts in this line were…

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Posted on April 3, 2018April 4, 2018

Brian Anson – “a revolutionary for social justice” buried in Magheragallon Cemetery, Gweedore, Donegal

In Mahgeragallon cemetery, where my father, uncle, maternal grandparents and maternal great-grandparents are buried, I came across the grave of Brian Anson. It is beside eight commonwealth war graves (three…

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Posted on April 19, 2016June 19, 2016

“The fifteenth of August” Nthposition, 2009

Most of my fiction has been, at least to date, working out a particular idea to its conclusion. At times this has given it a rather abstract quality. This story…

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Posted on January 15, 2016

Côte de Granit Rose and Magheragallon

The Pink Granite Coast of Brittany, along Ploumanac’h is an enchanting, strange landscape. My then two year old leapt to his heart content up and down boulders, perhaps to a degree…

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