Night Shift
The Woman’s Daughter
The Journey Home
Emily’s Shoes
A Second Life
Father’s Music
Plays
The Lament for Arthur Cleary
Blinded by the Light
In High Germany
The Holy Ground
One Last White Horse
April Bright
The Passion of Jerome
Consenting Adults
Plays: 1 (selected plays)
Poetry
The Habit of Flesh
No Waiting America
Internal Exiles
Leinster Street Ghosts
Taking My Letters Back: New & Selected Poems
Editor
The Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction
Finbar’s Hotel
Ladies’ Night at Finbar’s Hotel
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