Declan Burke Writes

I had an interview with Adrian McKinty (right) published in the Irish Examiner last weekend. It ran a lot like this: As every good crime ...

Digging by Seamus Heaney Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound ...

I had an interview with Jane Casey (right) published in the Sunday Business Post a couple of weeks ago - there’s no link, I’m afraid, so I’...

I mentioned last month that Adrian McKinty’s very fine novel THE COLD COLD GROUND is coming your way in January , but there’s also some exc...

“Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”   Seamus Heaney, Digging It occurred to me on Thursday night, at the...

Jane Casey’s (right) debut novel, THE MISSING, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards crime fiction category, and her new offering, the ...

For all my recent piffling about quitting as a writer, it was still something of a shock to see my picture in yesterday’s Sunday Times’ Cul...