I have been writing short stories and poetry for many years. In 1974 I had my play, ‘The Thunder and the Singing’, successfully performed in Trench House publishing it in 1997. My volume of poetry, ‘Walk of Life’, was published in 1994 and my very successful book of short stories, ‘The Hanky Ball’, was published in 2000, I followed this up in 2001 with another anthology of short stories entitled ‘The Wart Well’.

Falls Road Stories

In 2005 I began a series of 32 page booklets with short stories in them and called them, Falls Road Stories and they have been very successful in the shops where I have placed them on the Falls Road in Belfast. At the present time, February 2007 I have published fifteen of them. They have been sent to America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia by people here in Belfast to their relatives and the feedback is tremendous. Some of the stories are true nostalgic stories while others are more in the line of fiction or fact with Irish themes.