Favourites
Article - The Ireland I Want Does Not Exist Yet, Z Network, Collaboration for Change (2024).
Conversation with Stephen Baker on the North podcast (2024).
Book - The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798. Order from Beyond The Pale Books (2022).
Spoken Word - Chalk on the Wall, BBC Radio 3 The Essay (2021).
Article - Conjuring My Women: Protestant Lives During Partition, The Honest Ulsterman (2021).
Conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama on the Corrymeela Podcast (2021).
Selected
In Progress
The Ghost Limb, 4 part radio documentary series for RTÉ, coming late 2024.
'Missionary Blood', in Catherine Harper ed. Studies In Iconology: Ireland's Stained and Bloodied Cloths. Belgium, Peeters Publishers.
2024
'Northern Protestants and the Irish Language' in Máirtín Ó Catháin and Laura McAtackney (eds.), Handbook of the Northern Ireland Troubles and peace process, Oxfordshire: Routledge.
Articles in The Irish News: What might Protestants bring to the Irish reunification debate?; Is official Ireland up for letting the people shape constitutional change?
Reviews of The Ghost Limb by Emma McArdle in Éire Nua, Adam Fusco for The Dublin Review of Books & Jim Larmour at The Irish Marxist Review.
Podcasts with The Shrapnel Podcast, The Echo Chamber, Soul Surmise.
2023
I spent pretty much all of 2023 blethering about the book. Events, more events and barely any writing.
Most were unrecorded. Possibly NVTV is the only conversation that was recorded.
Huge thanks to BBC Radio Ulster, BBC Radio Foyle, BBC NI, the Irish News, the Derry Journal and other outlets for featutring the work.
Book reviews by Gemma Reid at Quarto & Rev. Steve Stockman.
2022
The Ghost Limb was published in November 2022 this year. So that’s pretty much all I wrote :)
Some early conversations about the book on Slugger TV, The View, The Red Lines Podcast, Ireland’s Future, Irish Border Poll.
First book reviews of the Ghost Limb in by Nicholas Allen for the Irish Times & Gladys Ganiel on Slugger O’Toole.
2021
Northern Protestants: A gravitational pull towards the future, Irish Times Book Review of Susan McKay's Northern Protestants.
As it reaches its centenary, Northern Ireland is not OK, The Big Issue.
Thank You NHS (Sorry about the PPE), Fortnight magazine.
Life, Love and Loss on the Road to Partition, Belfast Telegraph.
Understanding Northern Ireland Through Voice and Story, Irish Historians in Britain.
Telling Hidden Stories, The Irish Association.
Spoken word: What Northern Ireland means to me, feat on Shared Future News Podcast.
Podcasts: The Irish Passport Podcast, A Worker’s Guide to Everything (ep 59), Red Lines Podcast, The Lady, Year ‘21 Podcast (BBC).
2020
Northern Protestants’ Irish Ghost Limb, The Honest Ulsterman.
Divided Politics, Blended Lives, Fortnight Magazine.
May Tyrants Tremble: A candid portrait of a misunderstood radical, Irish Times Book Review.
I spent much of 2020 researching and writing about COVID-19 for FactCheckNI
2019
2018-2019 Curated series of 23 articles on the theme ‘Future Ireland’, for Slugger O’Toole.
Various articles on Slugger O’Toole: In a devastating election, is Northern Ireland the crack where the light gets in?; Is Northern Ireland spiralling out of control?; UK Parliament Declares Environment and Climate Emergency; Can Northern Ireland Change?; Brexit at a Belfast School Gate; Ards and North Down Declare Climate Emergency.
Podcasts: David Cannadine: On Crossing the Religious Divide, BBC Radio 4 (contributor); Motherfoclóir.
2018
Various articles on Slugger O’Toole: Future Ireland: Where Can the North Thrive?; What Should I Tell My Kids About The 12th July?; Power to the People, Best Irish podcasts of 2018; Doctrine and Decline: Irish Churches and the Conservative Turn; I Voted for Peace and All I Got Was This Lousy Culture War,
Spoken word: The Dog Show, live storytelling at Tenx9.
Podcasts: contributer to Generation Neither, BBC Radio 4; Northern Ireland - Where Next? Analysis, BBC Radio 4.
2017
Articles on Slugger O’Toole: Take Back Control - Of Our Ulster Scots Histories; If Not Loyalists, Who Else Will Do This Job?
Spoken word: I’ve Got A Message, live storytelling at Tenx9.
