The Reverend Garibaldi McFlurry

Most Saturday nights when I was growing up, we had our dinner in The Wellington House in Dromore. More commonly known as McFadden's, it ...

A wee while ago, I was arranging to meet up with a friend for a chat. We wondered where would be convenient to meet, and Costa at Holywood E...

I've previously written about how much I enjoy Colin Bateman's books. Over the course of the summer, I read another couple of his, ...

You're probably fed up hearing of the latest Colin Bateman book I've read. This is the last one for a wee while! Bateman's book...

It's Christmas Eve, the shops are just about to close in Belfast City Centre. Four men are precariously perched on the balcony of toy s...

Regular readers of the blog will have discovered by now that I'm slowly working my way through Colin Bateman's back catalogue, havi...

On Monday I reviewed Jonathan Bardon's book The Plantation of Ulster . The parts of the book that resonated most deeply with me were t...

Ireland has always been a troubled and contested territory - through the arrival of the Gaels, and subsequent risings and rebellions and co...

The other day, I was in a national shop in a local town. The assistants are always polite, always friendly, mostly chatty. Picking up and sc...