Published Works

Published Material

  • "First Robin," poem, laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Spring 2007.
  • "Holy Tuesday, April 3," meditation, Ashes to Alleluia, St. John's Parish on the Green, Waterbury, CT, 2007.
  • "The Baby Dreams," short story, Fresh Ink, Naugatuck Valley Community College, Waterbury, CT, 2006.
  • "My Daughter Wants a Dog," book review, laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Fall 2006.
  • "A Late Winter Grammar," poem, Perspective Arts Newsmagazine, Auburn, California, January/February 2006.
  • "Vespers," poem, laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Fall 2005.
  • Silent Spaces, a collection of family memories, 2004.
  • Seventeen Park Lane, a collection of poems, 2003.
  • “Walk Easy” (poem) in God’s Messengers, What Animals Teach Us about the Divine, compiled and edited by Allen and Linda Anderson, New World Library, 2003.
  • Review of In Our Strange Gardens in Whistling Shade, St. Paul, MN, Summer 2002.
  • “Mostly Water,” “Derby Day,” and “Two Crows,” (poems) Whistling Shade, St. Paul, MN, Spring 2002.
  • “The Deer,” short story, Whistling Shade, St. Paul, MN, Fall 2001.
  • “Walk Easy,” poem, laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Fall 2001.
  • “A Late Winter Grammar” poem, Manzanita: Literary Journal of the Mother Lode and Sierra, San Andreas, CA, Vol. 4, October 2001.
  • “The Sound Was a Sea,” “Walk in the Garden,” and “Song,” poems, Whistling Shade, St. Paul, MN, Summer 2001.
  • “Heather,” poem, The Larcom Review, Prides Crossing, MA, Fall/Winter 2000.
  • “Winter Sound,” poem, Poetry Motel Wallpaper Series, Duluth, MN, Winter 2000.
  • “Wooden Bowl” and “Autumn Fire,” poems, The Paumanok Review (http://www.etext.org/Fiction/Paumanok), Fall 2000.
  • “Easter Without Text,” poem, laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Fall 2000.
  • Review of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac. laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Summer 2000.
  • “Ireland Struggles with a Reluctant Peace,” essay, with Charles Mullaney, Connecticut Review, New Haven, CT, Winter 2000.
  • “Dogs in the Manger,” poem, laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Winter 1999.
  • “Seagull Melody” poem, Kimera: a Journal of Fine Writing (http://www.js.spokane.wa.us/kimera), Winter 1999.
  • “For Connecticut Beavers, It’s the Pipe System or be Dammed,” magazine article, laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Spring 1999.
  • “Plymouth,” magazine article, Cape Cod Guide, South Chatham, MA, Summer 1998.
  • “Cuchulainn,” poem, laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Summer 1998.
  • “An Irish Family Struggles to Green an Irish Mountain,” magazine article, laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Spring 1998.
  • “Seven Wild Turkeys” and “Sea Shells,” poems, Poets’ Paper, Easton, PA, 1998.
  • “Two Seagulls in February” and “Cuchulainn,” poems, Penworks, Trumbull, CT, 1998.
  • "Our Hope for You is Steadfast,” short story. Penworks, Trumbull, CT, 1997; and Artisan, Wilmette, IL, Spring 1998.
  • "Connecticut," poem, International Poets, Peterborough, England, 1997.
  • "The Bridgewater Mill," essay, Contest winner, Bridgewater Historical Society. Bridgewater, CT, 1996.
  • "The Literature of Terror,” essay, Garm Lu, Toronto, Canada, 1996.
  • “Errigal 1” (poem) and “The Irish Traditional Music Archive” (feature), Garm Lu, Toronto, Canada, 1995.
  • “Learning Irish in the Donegal Gaeltacht,” essay, Ireland of the Welcomes, Dublin, Ireland, May-June, 1995.
  • “Recollection,” poem, Pathfinders, Peterborough, England, 1995.
  • “Funding the Movement,” short story, Waterford Review, Waterford, Ireland, 1995.
  • “World War Won,” poem, Struggle, Detroit, MI, Summer 1994.
  • “James Joyce’s Irish Nationalism, A Response to His Time, In His Time. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” essay, Arkansas Quarterly. University of Arkansas, October 1993.
  • “The Making of a Woman” play, Struggle, Detroit, MI, November 1993; Schmaga, Vallejo, CA, July 1994; and Common Lives Quarterly, Iowa City, IO, Issue 53.
  • “From Cork to Belfast,” poem, Life as We Know It, Peterborough, January 1994.

Presentations

2006

"Seventeen Park Lane" and "Silent Spaces" reading at Northwest Corner Writers' Group's June meeting in Goshen, CT.

2005

Reading of "Oak Leaves" and "At Bethany" at Bethlehem (CT) Library's October Literary Coffeehouse.

2004

"Seventeen Park Lane" reading at The Silo Gallery in conjunction with Western Connecticut State University.

1996

"Is Peace Dead in Ireland?” (lecture), Western Connecticut State University, History Society. Danbury, CT.

1993-94

“Scairt Amach, Irish Republican Prisoners’ Art” (photograph exhibition), Western Connecticut State University, Danbury; Mercy College, White Plains, NY; New Haven Feis, New Haven, CT; Irish Arts Center, New York, NY. The exhibition is now permanent part of the political collection of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1994

“The Writing on the Wall” photography exhibition and slide show, Bethel Cinema, Bethel, CT. 1994

“James Joyce’s Irish Nationalism, a Response to His Time, in His Time: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” American Conference for Irish Studies’ Southern Regional Conference, Morgantown, WV; Graduate Conference for Irish Studies, University of Texas, Austin.

1990-94

Radio interviews and programs concerning Irish issues, WXCI Radio, Danbury, CT; WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT.

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