DAMIAN SMYTH Writing Things

MO’D: At what point in your career did you realise that a focus on your home town of Downpatrick would be important to your work? DS: It...

I first encountered Damian Smyth in Market Street (2010) a dozen years ago. Utterly new to poetry, I resented being up language creek...

Irish Street is a perceptive and assured contemplation of place and relationships Irish Street follows Damian Smyth’s pamphlet and six...

IF THE defining cultural moment of the last fifty years in Northern Ireland is discussed, it will be hard to get around the address given...

LOOK, I'M not here to do literary criticism and I'm not here to be a barrier between you and the readers this afternoon. But it has to be...

SEAMUS HEANEY is recognised as one of the major poets in any language of the 20th Century. A native of south Derry, he was raised outside...

THERE WAS a list in the Daily Telegraph. All the big broadsheets with their notions of themselves and the self-image of the readership...

A rhapsody on the novel Shane by Jack Schaefer.

THERE IS a scene in the 1960 movie The Time Machine when the mechanism works for the first time. A masterpiece only in its steampunk...

The Boer War and an Irish nationalist town