Irish Papist

Yesterday, I had the thought of starting a Catholic writer's group in Dublin. I'm quite attached to this idea. I posted about it on ...

This is the text of the talk I delivered to the Courage to be Catholic conference, held in the Catholic chaplaincy of Queen's University...

This morning, I took The Poetry of Chess from my bookshelves, not having looked at in a long, long time. I bought this book secondhand (in ...

I think about advertising a lot. I think it's possible I think about advertising more than most other people. I've had many thoughts...

God bless vanilla ice-cream. God bless Tuesday mornings. God bless nil-nil draws. God bless slow news days. God bless small provincial t...

I've been writing about the importance of poetry recently. In fact, while trying to find something I'd written on this blog many ye...

Here I am giving a talk on the subject of my book to a Legion of Mary conference in Queen's University, Belfast, on Saturda...