Writing

I have published writing in peer-reviewed academic journals, books, artists’ publications and online. Below I list a selection of my essays.

  • 2024 Nothing and Something, in Stephen Wilson, Liminal: Photographing the Void, Atlanta, Fall Line Press

  • 2024 Meeting Place in Laura McAtackney and Máirtín Ó Catháin (eds), Handbook of the Northern Irish Conflict and Peace Process (London and New York, Routledge)

  • 2023 Little Boxes, published in The Typescript

  • 2022 On Proof of Ghosts, for Joan Alexander (accompanying exhibition of Proof of Ghosts, Belfast Exposed and Brighton Photo Fringe Festival)

  • 2021 On the Up?, for NI Screen: short film reflecting on place and people in the Sperrins, with accompanying essay

  • 2021 Sea-change, published in The Typescript

  • 2018 Trying Identities: Roger Casement and Erskine Childers, pp94-106 in The Irish Review, vol.54

  • 2014 The Elephant in the Room: Colonialism and Postcolonialism in Northern Ireland, pp229-241 in Historical Geography, vol.42

  • 2014 Troubling Ireland: a Cultural Geographer’s Perspective, p23-28 in Art and Activism, Dublin, Firestation Artist’s Studios

  • 2013 (with Brian Graham and Catherine Nash) Partitioned Lives: the Irish Borderlands, Farnham, Ashgate Press

  • 2011 Walking Silvermines: a Rural Psychogeography, for Fiona Woods

  • 2010 Reading, Performing and Imagining Place: Can Cultural Geography Speak to Visual Art?, pp247-253 in Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcou and Nishat Awan (eds.) Translocal Act: Cultural Practices Within and Across, Paris, aaa/peprav

  • 2009 Untold stories, unseen spaces: city supplements, pp26-31 in city supplements, Belfast, PS²

  • 2009 The territory of art and the territory underfoot: a reading of three artworks from Leitrim, pp44-49 in Circa, no.127

  • 2008 Introduction, pp20-23 in Christine Mackey, Riverwork(s), Dublin, Ignition Press

  • 2008 ‘Rearranging the ground’: public and private space in Belfast, Northern Ireland, pp489-503 in Gender, Place and Culture, vol.15 no.5

  • 2008, Trellising the girders: poetry and the imagining of place in Northern Ireland, pp519-534 in Social and Cultural Geography, vol.9 no.5

  • 2007 Creating counterspaces: identity and the home in Northern Ireland, pp933-950 in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol.25 no.5

  • 2005 ‘A profound edge: performative negotiations of Belfast, pp1-22 in Cultural Geographies, vol.12 no.4

  • 2004 Labouring towards the space to belong: place and identity in Northern Ireland, pp103-113 in Irish Geography, vol.37 no.1