With support from the Arts Council of Ireland, I will be spending 2015 developing and writing the libretto and score for a brand new opera based on the life of Irish revolutionary Roger Casement. A deeply contentious figure in Irish history, Casement will make a fascinating subject for a dark and probing opera. For some […]

Late last year I wrote a scene for an opera I’ve been wanting to write for a long time. The opera is going to be based on the life of Roger Casement and it’s something I initially decided to write an opera about around 5 years ago. For some reason it’s been a struggle trying […]

Having just completed the dissertation element for my MA in International Relations – 16,000 words written, hundreds of thousands read, 4 months of research, many new wrinkles and a further receded hairline – which challenged Giorgio Agamben’s theory of sovereign power and bare life by suggesting that we can theorise the act of self-immolation in […]