- Ballistics (No. 1)
A stray rocket in the Malayan ‘Emergency’ [essay]
- Three notes on the Elgin Marbles (No. 5)
Reading between the captions in the British Museum [essay]
- Scailp (No. 13)
A poor nesting place, high in Connemara [essay]
- Ogygia lost (No. 14)
The exploitation of Connemara’s islands, past and present. [essay]
- Walking the skyline (No. 23)
Haunting the precipices of Connemara [essay]
- Refloating Inishbofin (No. 31)
On an island, ancient myth, contemporary reality and the cry of the corncrake [essay]
- Waiting for Nuala (No. 35)
A note on Nuala O’Faolain’s last day [memoir]
- Mapping a little Gaelic kingdom (No. 43)
Cottages, bungalows and a half-built bridge in south Connemara [personal history]
- A land without shortcuts (No. 46)
In defence of the distinctiveness of places [essay]