Books

• ‘Conceptualism: ‘The Last Partisans of the Avant-Garde’?, in, eds. Catherine Marshall and Yvonne Scott, Brightening Glances: Irish Art since 1900, Royal Irish Academy, 2022.

• ‘Same Difference: Surrealism and Irish Art’, in eds. Fintan Cullen, Roisin Kennedy, Sources in Irish Art 2: A Reader, Cork University Press, 2021.

• ‘Gerard Byrne, New Sexual Lifestyles (2003)’ and Alice Maher, The Four Directions (2004), in, Ed. Fintan O’Toole,
  Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks, The Irish Times in association with the Royal Irish Academy, 2016.

• ‘New Media Art in Ireland’, The Art and Architecture of Ireland Volume V: Twentieth Century, Royal Irish Academy and Yale University Press, 2014

 

• ‘‘Mad Raphaels in the Mire’: Melancholia and the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Richard Hamilton dealing with Irish Republican Prison Protest’, Published Proceedings of 1997 AICA Conference, April 2001

 

• ‘Judge on Durée’: Shane Cullen’s Fragmens sur les Institutions Républicaines IV’, Locus Solus: Site, Identity, Technology in Contemporary Art, (eds. J. Stallabrass, Niru Ratnam, et.al.), London: Black Dog Publishing, 2000

Academic Journals/Essays
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• Essay on Tom Medwell: Impossible Sculptures, Source Photography Review, no.106, Autumn, 2021.

• Essay on Lorraine Tuck: Unusual Gestures, Source Photographic Review, no.102, Autumn 2020.
  
  
• '‘Take Me I’m Yours …': Legacies of the Russian Avant-Garde', Third essay to ‘The Moonlight of Fantasy’: The Russian Revolution Now, Circa Art Magazine, March 2019.

 

• 'Richard Kolker: How We Evolved from Lego', Source Photographic Review, no.97, Spring 2019.

 

• ‘A Very British Putsch: Brexit, Ireland and the Red Room’, Third Text, vol.32, issue 5-6, December 2018.

 

• ‘Claire Masters: Slippage’, Source Photographic Review, no.95, Autumn 2018.

 

• ‘The Immobile Mongol’, Second essay to ‘The Moonlight of Fantasy’: The Russian Revolution Now, Circa Art Magazine, November 2017.

 

• ‘The Five-Year Plan in Four’. Introductory essay to ‘The Moonlight of Fantasy’: The Russian Revolution Now, Circa Art Magazine, October 2017.

 

• 'Mads Holm, About Common Ground', Source Photographic Review, no.89, Spring 2017.                                                                                                                                
• Alice Maher, The Four Directions (2004), Irish Times (Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks Series), 30th July 2016.

 

• Gerard Byrne, New Sexual Lifestyles (2003), Irish Times (Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks Series), 23rd July 2016.

 

• Roger Palmer, Starry Plough, Source Photographic Review, no.86, Summer 2016.

 

• 'Fantasy Islands: Pleasure and Bureaucracy in Artist-Led Organizations', 126 Quarterly Magazine, Spring 2015.

 

• Essay on Andrea Grutzner, Source-Cord Prize Runner-Up, Source Photographic Review, no.80, Autumn 2014.

 

• Essay introducing the work of David Penny, Source Photographic Review, no.77, Winter 2014

 

• Essay introducing the work of Danny Tracy, Source Photographic Review, no.76, Autumn, 2013

 

• ‘Shirkin’ the Ghosts of the Meantime’, Fugitive Papers, no.4, Summer 2013

 

• ‘‘Hey, That’s Interesting!’: Richard Hamilton’s Finn MacCool (1983)’, The Irish Review (Cork University Press), no.39, Winter 2008

 

• ‘Global Enterprise: Gerard Byrne and Willie Doherty at the 2007 Venice Biennale’, Circa, no.120, Summer 2007

 

• ‘‘Tonguetied Sons of Bastards’ Ghosts’: Postconceptual and Postcolonial Appraisals of the work of James Coleman’, Third Text (Routledge), vol.19, no.5, Sept. 2005, pp.499-510

 

• ‘Same Difference: Surrealism and Irish Art’, Printed Project (Visual Artists Ireland), No.5, June 2005, pp.55-62

 

• ‘‘Keaning the North’: Paintings of John Keane and Conflict in Northern Ireland’, The Irish Studies Review (Routledge), Vol.7, No. 3, Winter 1999

 

• ‘The Photographic Still Life Tradition: From the Gallery to the Lifestyle Glossy’, Source Magazine, June 1999

 

• ‘Time and Tide’, Circa, no.85, Winter 1998, (Article on Littoral in Ireland)

 

• ‘Painting and the Critical Void’, Fortnight, Dec. 1998, no.375 (Special Visual Arts Supplement)

Catalogues

• Ruby Wallis 'Unfixed Landscape', Belfast Exposed, January 2016.

 

• Fionna Murray: BLOW UP and Other Stories, Eagle Gallery, London, 2016.

 

• Michael Minnis, ‘Here, and Nowhere Else’, Limerick City Gallery of Art, September 7th – October 21st 2007 

 

• ‘Asthenia and the Critical’, Ian Charlesworth: From Dark Passages, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Studio Lipoli and Lopez, Rome, 2005.

 

• NUIG Art Collection. Catalogue entries on C20th art in NUIG Art Collection, Spring 2004

 

• ‘Ian Charlesworth, 1997 – 2002’, Greyscale/CMYK (exhibition catalogue), Helsinki: Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, September 2002.

 

• Placing Art: Sligo Public Art Programme, Exhibition Catalogue, Sligo County Council, November 2000

Reviews
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• ‘All farts in a biscuit tin’: Review of George Legg, Northern Ireland and the Politics of Boredom, Manchester University Press, 2018, Circa Art Magazine, 2020.
  
  
• Review of Symposium ‘Proposition: An Art of Ethics’, Burren College of Art, 11-12th March 2016, Visual Artists
  Newsletter, March/April 2016.

 

• ‘Nuala Ni Fhlathuin’, Ceramics Ireland, Issue 24, 2009

 

• ‘126 at Galway Arts Centre’, Circa, no. 118, Winter 2006

 

• ‘Alan Phelan: GB and the Western World’, Circa, no.114, Winter 2005

 

• ‘Ronnie Hughes, Formucopia’, Circa, no. 113, Autumn 2005

 

• ‘Innocence and Transgression (Through the Looking Glass: Childhood in Contemporary Photography, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork)’, Source Magazine, no.44, Autumn 2005, pp.58-59

 

• ‘Sophie Ristelhueber’, Source Magazine, no.43, Summer 2005

 

• ‘Gareth McConnell’, Source Magazine, no.41, Winter 2004

 

• ‘Dirk Reinartz, Bismarck in America’, Source Magazine, no.27, Summer 2001

 

• ‘‘Water-Gazers’: Jem Southam, The Shape of Time’, Source Magazine, August 2000

 

• ‘A Quare Pic in the Cooleys: Sean Hillen’s Irelantis’, Source Magazine, December 1999

 

• ‘Belfast Review’, Circa, no.89, Autumn 1999

 

• ‘Dystopian Chic: The Glen Dimplex Awards’, Source Magazine, September 1999

 

• ‘‘An Aesthetics of the Banal’: Paul Graham’, Source Magazine, March 1999

 

• ‘Ian Charlesworth’, inContext Magazine, Derry, February 1998

 

• ‘Shane Cullen: ‘Fragmens sur les ...’, Old Museum Arts Centre’, SSI Magazine, Spring 1996

 

• ‘‘Nepotism’, Catalyst Arts’, Circa, no.74, Winter 1995

 

•  ‘Alistair MacLennan, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester’, Circa, no.65, Autumn 1993

Other

• ‘The Return of Waldo Jeffers’, Short listed for Fish Short Story Prize, 2018

 

• ‘Machine Gun Mickey’, Long listed for Fish Short Story Prize, 2018

 

• ‘Oppenheimer’, Gorse, no.9, November 2017 (short story)


• ‘The Return of Waldo Jeffers’ (short story), Archiwik.org, TULCA 2016 (project initiated by Mark Orange)

 

• ‘The Oul Poet’, The Caterpillar, Spring 2014 (poem with illustration by EimearJean McCormack)

 

• ‘Ambition and the Earnest’, Fugitive Papers, Issue 1, Spring 2012 (short story)

 

• ‘Doric’, ‘The Olive of Berlin’, Cork Literary Journal, August 2005 (two poems)

 

• Wall text for Shane Cullen’s Fragmens …, Irish Musuem of Modern Art, June 2000

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