Other Stuff | Writer

Film

Good Vibrations (co-writer, with Colin Carberry), BBC Films. Winner of script award 2012 Dinard Festival, Writers’ Guild of Ireland Best Script Award 2013, BAFTA nomination ‘best newcomer’ 2014.

Stage

Good Vibrations (co-writer, with Colin Carberry, premiered Lyric Theatre Belfast 2018)

Long Story Short: The Belfast Opera (NI Opera & Belfast Buildings Trust, premiered 18 June 2016)

Monday night, Little Ireland, North of England (Point Fields Theatre Company, 1994)

Radio

The Northern Bank Job (Radio 4/BBC Sounds 2021)

‘Tilly’s Tale’ (Radio 4, 2013)

DeLorean (Radio 4, 2011)

Babble (Radio 3, 2006)

‘Toilets at the End of the Hemisphere’ (BBC7, 2006)

‘Dry Run’ (Radio 4, 2004)

‘A Small Problem’ (Radio 3, 2003)

‘The One With the Ayatollah & the Baby Monitor’ (Radio 4, 2002)

Television

Writer/presenter

Titanic Town? (BBC4, 2007)

City of Islands (BBC4, 2006)

Born Again (BBCNI, 2006)

‘National Trust?’ (Culture Show BBC2 2004)

Louis MacNeice: poet of the moment (BBCNI 2004)

Gift of the Gab (series, Channel 4, 2001)

Study Ireland, Poetry (series, BBCNI, 1999)

As Others See Us (series, UTV, 1998, co-director)

Baseball in Irish History (Channel 4, 1996, associate producer)

Black Box (arts review series, RTE, 1995-6)

More of it than we think… (BBCNI 1995)

Manchester-Belfast Return (Granada, 1992)

Print and online publications

Guardian, Observer, Independent, Irish Times, Sunday Times, Sunday Tribune, Belfast Telegraph, Dublin Review, Edinburgh Review; GQ; Bloomberg View