Con was not at home when his brother Thady called, so Thady went on a pub crawl, starting with Saints and Sinners in Woodside and on to the old haunts: Quinlans in Rochester and Rosie O’Gradys on Seventh Avenue. God,…

This is my mother Catherine Lawless (née Geraghty) in the fifties with me as a child. She came from a Liberties family where there was always music: accordion, violin, piano and even a bass, which I remember my father transporting…

Winner of the WOW Award for fiction. ‘Lovers Who Wound Blame it on the Storm shows how a talented writer can take the framework of an erotic love fixation and turn it into art by infusing it with a bone…

Hennessey Award nominated story of an impressionable young man’s hitchhiking journey through France in 1968 during the time of the Sorbonne riots where he encounters predatory sex and tastes the delights of elusive love. Tags: young love, France, 1968, Irish,…

Available now in most book ebook formats at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/781360 at a bargain price of 99 cents, the much-praised novel For Love of Anna. Idealistic student Guido van Thool is torn between the extreme nature of his ideals and his love…

Published now for Kindle and other devices intriguing inspirational story, Jolt. Shortlisted for the Willesden Prize, Jolt is a story about perception and ingrained prejudices that we can carry around with us in our everyday lives. Sometimes it can take…

What did you get for Christmas? At the end of the bed was there a piece of coal or maybe an ereader? If you have an ereader you may be interested in the great sale offer for eight days only…

Christmas Eve The birds make fake bird songs that I heard in the Christmas shops, the fake moon is spotted before dark, the navyblue sky is waiting for its absence to be filled, houses stand like sentries, men in windows…

Coincidences This time of year perhaps reminds us of those who have gone before us. One is John Montague, the brilliant poet who passed away last December and whom I had the pleasure of meeting with his charming wife Elizabeth…

Three of them are from my collection Rus in Urbe https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rus-Urbe-James-Lawless/dp/1500770272/ref=la_B001JOXD96_1_26_twi_pap_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512643748&sr=1-26 and one previously unpublished, Now and Then: https://ourpoetryarchive.blogspot.ie/2017/12/james-lawless.html THE OTHER HALF I hear you adding in the old language, wearing spectacles now, the soft light capturing in their frames…