● On Sunday 20 March 2022, I was interviewed about The Cursing Stone on The History Show on RTE Radio 1. Many thanks to Myles Dungan and Marc McMenamin for this opportunity. Click here to listen to the seven-minute clip.
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● My article about the shipwreck of HMS Wasp is published in the July-August 2021 issue of History Ireland. The article is available in the print edition and to on-line subscribers. Why not treat yourself to a subscription to History Ireland magazine?
● A video recording of the launch of The Cursing Stone is posted on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8SaehW4XVc
● Sources and a map for The Cursing Stone are detailed in my blog “On Writing” – click here.
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Instalment 1 of The Cursing Stone
County Donegal, Ireland, 1884. Your island home is threatened with mass evictions. What would you be willing to do to stop them?
The fates of two men – Ruari Mullan of Tory Island, and Sub-Lieutenant William Gubby of HMS Wasp – intersect in the disastrous arc of the Irish Land Wars.
An Early Review by Peter Goulding
“It’s a cracking read from start to finish, and I was kind of sorry when I finished it.”
A Review by Brian Leyden, Author of The Home Place
“…a richly historic novel with authentic Irish maritime roots…”
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