I write in order to make sense of life and in order to amuse myself and others. I am influenced primarily by satirists and parodists such as Sterne, Beckett, Flann O'Brien, Joyce, Nabokov, and Kafka. I have chosen to write for now on subjects Irish, for a familiar context, and subjects universal, such as love, ambition, death, et cetera, so my work will endure, or at least have a meaning for others. I am currently working on a satire on the world as it is now (corporatism, terrorism, political correctness, etc.).

Achievement: Getting four novels published.

I contribute essays regularly to the Boston Review's New Fiction Forum (bostonreview.net), and I post occasional car-related literary pieces on the Autosavant automotive website (www.autosavant.net).

Killoyle web site
Brief compendium of Killoyle-related material and links. Needs updating or refurbishment.

Dalkey Archive Press
Web site, with interview, fromf DAP, my first American publisher.

Grove Atlantic
Web page of my second novel, The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad, at Grove Press.