Activities

Lectures

Selected readings

2018.10.31 – “Gender Issues in my Work” in Estudios Irelandeses: Journal of Irish Studies, Issue 13.2, p. 141-45. Available: https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2018-8649
2017.10.07 – Not the Same Sky at Friends of the Library, Los Gatos
2017.10.06 – at the California launch of The Glass Shore: ‘Women Writers From The North of Ireland’; Whitney Gallery, Los Gatos
2017.09.25 – Spats, Shattuck Ave., Berkeley
2017.01.23-27 – Not the Same Sky read live over a week on RTÉ Radio 1
2017.05.25 – XVI International Aedei Conference (Spanish Association of Irish Studies) Logrono, Spain: Fe/male Challenges in Irish Studies from the 19th to the 21st Centuries
2015.01 –Post-script to Skin of Dreams
2014.10 & 12 – Articles in Verandah magazine, Australia
2014.06 – A series of 6 essays for Sunday Miscellany, RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland
2014.05 – Short story – Two Gallants – in Dubliners 100, a collection of 15 new stories each of which is a new take on James Joyce’s originals which were published a century ago this year. Edited by Thomas Morris, published by Tramp Press, Dublin. The Guardian Review commentary on this and on Evelyn Conlon’s Two Gallants.
2014.03 – Short Story – The Name of It – in Chinesische Transvestiten Und Andere Irische Stories (Also in English – Chinese Transvestites and Other Short Stories), Vienna: Songdog Verlag, 2014.
2014.02 – Short story – The Name of It – in Unbraiding the Short Story, Ed. Maurice A. Lee, Charleston SC: CreateSpace, 2014.
2013.05 – Dear You / Caro, Cara – English and Italian translation of a short story about Violet Gibson, the woman who attempted to assassinate Mussolini. In Tratti – Da una province de’impero n. 93, Maggio 2013. Download this here.
2013.05/06 – What’s That?, a series of 6 essays on public art written and broadcast for Sunday Miscellany, RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland
2013.08 Novel, Not the Same Sky (published by Wakefield Press, Australia).
2013.10.23 – Rathmines Library, Dublin
2013.09.24 – Wollongong University, New South Wales
2013 09.20 – National Library, Canberra
2013.09.19 – Yass Library, New South Wales
2013.09.10 – Melbourne Irish Studies, Melbourne University
2013.08.30 – UTS University, Sydney
2013.08.28 – Aisling Society, Irish Consulate, Sydney
2013.08.24 – Launch of Not the Same Skyl by Wakefield Press, at NSW Houses of Parliament, Sydney.
2013.08.25 – Famine Commemoration, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
2013.08.01 – Shamrock in the Bush Irish History symposium, Galong, New South Wales
2013.06.05 – Irish Writers’ Centre with shortlisted James Plunket writers, June 5th.
2013.05.31 – Listowel Writers’ Week
2013.05.11 – Kilrush Famine Commemoration
2012 – Reading at University of Vigo, Galicia.
2012 – Reading and workshop at University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia.
2012 – Reading at University of Forli, Italy.
2011.08.10 – Global Studies Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
2011.08 – Byron Bay Writers’ Festival, Australia.
2010.11 – University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
2010.08 – Shamrock in the Bush, Galong, New South Wales.
2010.07 – Melbourne & Sydney Universities
2010.05 – Carlow College, USA summer programme in Ireland
2008 – City University New York
2005 – Visiting Writer to Jakarta International School
2007 – Reading at IASIL, Kobe and Waseda University, Tokyo.
2003 – University of Faenza, Italy.
Cúirt (Galway), Listowel Writers’ Week, Scríobh (Sligo) – each several years
1999 – Visiting Writer to St. Thomas College, St. Paul. USA; Melbourne Writers’ Week; L’Imaginaire Irlandaise, France; Frankfurt Book Fair; Amsterdam
and Berlin ‘Book weeks’; readings in Edinburgh and Northern England. Reading at Hunter College, NY
1989 – Bowdoin College, Maine; NEU, Boston; Yale University
1987 – Kate O’Brien Weekend, Limerick

Selected Workshops (in Ireland and abroad)

2017 – Carlow College USA Creative Writing mentoring programme, Trinity College, Dublin
2016 – Carlow College USA Creative Writing mentoring programme, Trinity College, Dublin
2015 – Carlow College USA Creative Writing mentoring programme, Trinity College, Dublin
2014 – Carlow College USA Creative Writing mentoring programme, Trinity College, Dublin
2013.09 – School of Creative Writing, Wollongong University, New South Wales
2013-2011 – Carlow College USA Creative Writing mentoring programme, Sligo and Trinity College, Dublin.
2008, 2007 – Listowel Writers’ Week
2011-08 – Byron Bay Writers’ Festival, Australia
2008 – Washington State University workshop at The Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin
2008 – Listowel Writers’ Week
2007 – Listowel Writers’ Week
2006 – Rathlin Island writers’ week, Co. Antrim
2005 – Dingle Writers’ Workshop
2002 – Iowa Writers’ Workshop, visiting Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin; St. Thomas College, St. Paul. USA.
1996 – Bosnian Refugee writing project, Dublin

Residencies

2016 – Writer in Residence at the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Leuven, Belgium
2013 – Varuna Writers’ Centre, Katoomba, New South Wales
2008 – Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain, September.
2007 – Writer in Residence at University College Dublin.
2004 – Visiting International Writer, Schwandorf, Bavaria
2002 – Residency at Mishkanot Sha’anamim, Jerusalem; residency at Varuna Writers’ Centre, Australia.
2001 – Visiting writer to St. Thomas College, St. Paul, USA
2000 – Writer in Residence Dublin City Libraries, during designated City of Culture Year.
1999 – Residency at Djerassi Foundation, California

Other work and issues

2014 – Nominated for The Laureate for Irish Fiction
2013 – 2009 – Commissioned essay series on RTÉ National radio show Sunday Miscellany
2011 – Art for Al Muttenabi: visual art poster symposium at Dublin City Library.
2003 – Skin of Dreams short listed for Irish Novel of the Year award.
1994 – Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour, performed in Edinburgh Theatre Festival.
1986-1994 – Co-editor of Graph Literary Review.