Selected Writing & Media
Now
The Ghost Limb, a four-part radio documentary series, is on RTÉ Radio 1 summer 2026 - Sundays at 7pm, and on the Documentary on One podcast later in the year. Co-written with producer Dónall Ó Maolfabhail, I presented and narrated.
A new book is in progress.
Books
The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798. Order from Beyond The Pale Books (2022).
Reviews of The Ghost Limb by Nicholas Allen in The Irish Times, Adam Fusco for The Dublin Review of Books, Emma McArdle in Éire Nua, Gladys Ganiel on Slugger O'Toole & Jim Larmour at The Irish Marxist Review, Gemma Reid at Quarto Collective and elsewhere. I spent a lot of time 2022-2024 blethering about it at events across the country - Slugger TV, The View, The Red Lines Podcast, Ireland’s Future, NVTV and Irish Border Poll. Huge thanks to BBC Radio Ulster, BBC Radio Foyle, BBC NI, the Irish News, the Derry Journal and other outlets for featuring the work.
Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture, Co-written with Gladys Ganiel. Order from UCD Press (2011).
Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland: Boundaries of Belonging and Belief. Routledge (2005)
Radio & audio
The Ghost Limb, 4-part documentary series, RTÉ Radio 1 (2026)
Chalk on the Wall, BBC Radio 3 The Essay (2021).
Contributor to BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Ulster, including The Lady, Year ‘21 Podcast.
Conversations: with Pádraig Ó Tuama on the Corrymeela Podcast, with Stephen Baker on the North Podcast, with Colin Graham on ARINS’ My Identity, The Shrapnel Podcast, The Echo Chamber, Soul Surmise, Irish Passport Podcast, A Worker’s Guide to Everything, Red Lines Podcast, Motherfoclóir and plenty more.
Essays & articles
The Republic of Newtownards, An Clogán (2025)
The Ireland I Want Does Not Exist Yet, Z Network (2024)
Conjuring My Women: Protestant Lives During Partition, The Honest Ulsterman (2021)
Northern Protestants' Irish Ghost Limb, The Honest Ulsterman (2020) - where the book began.
What might Protestants bring to the Irish reunification debate?; Is official Ireland up for letting the people shape constitutional change?, Irish News (2024)
As it reaches its centenary, Northern Ireland is not OK, The Big Issue (2021)
Book reviews an essays in the Irish Times, Fortnight, the Belfast Telegraph and others
Slugger O'Toole
Curated Future Ireland, a 23-article series imagining the north's futures (2018-19), and wrote there for years on politics, climate and culture. Highlights - What Should I Tell My Kids About The 12th July?, Is Northern Ireland spiralling out of control?, Brexit at a Belfast School Gate, Take Back Control - Of Our Ulster Scots Histories, If Not Loyalists, Who Else Will Do This Job?
Chapters
'Missionary Blood', in Catherine Harper (ed.), Studies In Iconology: Ireland's Stained and Bloodied Cloths (Peeters) (2025)
'Northern Protestants and the Irish Language', in Ó Catháin & McAtackney (eds.), Handbook of the Northern Ireland Troubles and Peace Process (Routledge, 2024)
