Orpen at War – Features and Reviews
- REVIEW Irish Times 21/1/2023
- A Dublin Lothario sent to paint war and peace
- The Painter who Committed the War to Canvas – Irish Daily Mail, December 30 2022
- Succeeds both as a novel and as a work of art history – Review Historical Novels Review Nov 22
- Irish Catholic Review, October 2022
- Sunday Independent Review, 16 October 2022 – From Brian Boru to the Great War
- Irish Daily Mail YOU magazine, 8 October 2022 – This Life
- Social and Personal , October 2022 – Artistic Licence – Nothing in William Orpen’s privileged life has prepared him for the horrors of war
- The Gloss, October 2022 – The Scantily Clad “Spy” – A relationship and a portrait that almost ruined William Orpen
- Books Ireland, August 2022 – On Querying and the Road to Finding a Publisher
- The Irish Times, Ticket, September 10 2022 – From High Society to the Charnel House
First Rose of Tralee – Features & Reviews
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- Q & A – THE GLOSS MAGAZINE Writer’s Block with Patricia O’Reilly (Sophie Grenham) – August 2019
- FEATURE – SOCIAL AND PERSONAL MAGAZINE – She Was Lovely and Fair – August 2019
- FEATURE – RTE GUIDE – The Story Behind the Rose of Tralee – 17 August 2019
- SUNDAY MISCELLANY BROADCAST
- FEATURE – IRISH DAILY MAIL YOU Magazine – The Servant Girl Who Inspired The Rose of Tralee – 17 August 2019-08-31
- FEATURE – IRISH COUNTRY LIVING – Remembering The First Rose – 24 August 2019
- COVER STORY – IRELAND’S OWN – The Story of the First Rose of Tralee – 30 August 2019
- EXTRACT – WOMAN’S WAY – The First Rose of Tralee – 8 July 2019
- INTERVIEW – The Kerryman
- IRISH DAILY MAIL YOU magazine – This Life – 18 May 2019
- OPINION – BOOKS IRELAND – The Truths about Writing Historical Fiction – May/June 2019
- FEATURE – IRISH TIMES ONLINE – Writing the Story of Mary O’Connor, the original Rose of Tralee – 9 May 2019 –
Reviews
- SUNDAY INDEPENDENT – The Rose of Tralee Blooms Anew – 18 August 2019 (Margaret Carragher)
- HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY – The First Rose of Tralee – August 2019 (Katherine Mezzacappa)
- IRISH CATHOLIC –A Novel Approach ot Local History down in Kerry – 31 May 2019 (J Anthony Gaughan)
- IRISH INDEPENDENT – Servant-girl Romance Tells Story of the Original Rose – 25 May (Ann Dunne)
The Interview – Features & Reviews
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman – Anne Cunningham – Sunday Independent, 9 November 2014
- Historical Novel Society Review – Winter 2014
- The Nomad meets the Architect, The Irish Catholic, 21 August 2014
- The Wonder of the World and the Power of the Word, The Irish Times, 7 September 2014
- Gray Area: fiction beings colour to real-life designer, Review, The Irish Times, 23 August 2014
- This Life, Irish Daily Mail, YOU magazine, 2 August 2014
- Exploring a Gray Area, The Sunday Times Culture magazine, 27 July 2014
- Change by a brief Encounter in Paris, the Dermot Bolger Review, The Irish Mail on Sunday, 13 July 2014
- Writing.ie – 10 July 2014
- When Bruce Chatwin met Eileen Gray: the star writer and the elusive designer, Irish Times OnLine Feature, 7 July 2014
- Finding ‘The Interview’, Books Ireland, July/August 2014
- A lady worth interviewing, Irish Independent Weekend Review, 7 June 2014
- A meeting of minds, Irish Daily Mail YOU magazine, 12 April 2014
Eileen Gray
- This Life, Irish Daily Mail YOU magazine, 9 June 2012
- Lecture on Life of Eileen Gray, Enniscorthy Guardian, 28 June 2011
- Furniture as Art, the Work of Eileen Gray, History Ireland, May/June 2010
- The Amazing Story of Eileen Gray, Irish Daily Mail, Friday, February 27, 2009
- The House by the Sea, The Gloss Magazine, August 2007
Kathleen Newton:
- Recalling Kathleen Newton, Roscommon People, 22 March 2013
- Interview with Dianne Ascroft, 11 August 2011
- This Life, Irish Daily Mail YOU magazine, 22 May 2010
Writing Courses:
Talks:
- 28 February 2023 – Power Point Presentation on ‘Orpen at War’, Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square, Dublin 1 at 2.30 pm
- 11 May 2024 – Power Point Presentation, Cork Decorative & Fine Art Society, Nano Nagle Centre, Douglas St, Cork – morning
Interviews:
- Interview with Patricia O’Reilly, Virtual Writer