Just about a year ago, Patrick Chapman and I set up an experiment called Irish Literary Revival. As we put it in our introduction,
This is where out-of-print and out-of-circulation Irish books are brought back into the world. Although our name is a pun, our intentions are serious.
Would that we both had more time to [...]

The concept
“jamendo is a new model for artists to promote, publish, and be paid for their music.
On jamendo, the artists distribute their music under Creative Commons licenses. In a nutshell, they allow you to download, remix and share their music freely. It’s a “Some rights reserved” agreement, perfectly suited for the new century.
These new [...]

Recently Patrick Chapman and yours truly were guests on Pat Boran’s The Enchanted Way programme on RTÉ Radio One, explaining our new website, Irish Literary Revival.
We were preceded by the extraordinary octogenarian poet Fergus Allen reading from his work at the launch of Gas Light & Coke, his latest collection.
The programme is now available [...]

Patrick Chapman and I have created a new website, Irish Literary Revival, and it is officially launched today, May 1, 2006.
In a nutshell, it hosts out-of-print and out-of-circulation books by Irish authors, in digital form, but under a Creative Commons licence/license. Check the website or the Creative Commons FAQ if you’d like to [...]

I’ve uploaded The Fabulist in different formats (Word, PDF, Open Office 2), though I’m sure there’s work to be done on them. Endless work when you start this - you (or at least I) always miss some detail.
Anyway, it’s at The Fabulists, if you want to check it out.
A website with a similar [...]

It’s taken me almost a year since I first mentioned it to my agent, Lisa, and publisher Antony Farrell, but at last I’ve got around to putting my first novel The Fabulists, online for free downloaded under a Creative Commons Licence (or License, if you are American).
Initially I’ve posted it in WordPress, one chapter [...]