Services offered
Copy-editing, proofreading, indexing, typesetting, book design, rewriting, image research, project management, publishing consultancy, publishing
Clients include
Cork University Press, C.J. Fallon, The Arts Council, Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, Royal Irish Academy, Mercier Press, Four Courts Press, Manchester University Press, Blackstaff Press, University of Chicago Press, Forum Publications, Ashgate, Collins Press, Attic Press
Examples of work undertaken
Copy-editing: John Crowley et al. (eds), Atlas of Irish Sport (Cork University Press, forthcoming); Patrick Anderson, Rewriting the Troubles: War and Propaganda in Ireland and Algeria (Greenisland Press, 2022); Neil O’Boyle and Marcus Free (eds), Sport, the Media and Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Cork University Press, 2020); Seán Crosson, Gaelic Games on Film: From Silent Films to Hollywood Hurling, Horror and the Emergence of Irish Cinema (Cork University Press, 2019); Niamh O’Sullivan, Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger (Cork University Press, 2018); Deirdre Ní Chuanacháin, Utopianism in Eighteenth-century Ireland (Cork University Press, 2016); Bertrand Cardin, Colum McCann’s Intertexts: Books Talk to One Another (Cork University Press, 2016); L. Perry Curtis Jr., Notice to Quit: The Great Famine Evictions (Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, 2015); William L. Pressly, James Barry’s Murals at the Royal Society of Arts: Envisioning a New Public Art (Cork University Press, 2014); Angélique Day, Glimpses of Ireland’s Past: The Ordnance Survey Memoir Drawings: Topography and Technique (Royal Irish Academy, 2014); Alison Hood, Interpreting Chopin: Analysis and Performance (Ashgate, 2014); John Horne & Edward Madigan (eds), Towards Commemoration: Ireland in War and Revolution, 1912–1923 (Royal Irish Academy, 2013); Seán Campbell, ‘Irish Blood, English Heart’: Second-generation Irish Musicians in England (Cork University Press, 2011); Fintan Vallely (ed.), The Companion to Irish Traditional Music (Cork University Press, 2011); Laurence Fenton, The Young Ireland Rebellion and Limerick (Mercier Press, 2010).
Proofreading: Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton & Anne-Julie Lafaye (eds), Mendicants on the Margins: Geographical, Social and Historiographical Margins in the Study of Medieval and Early Modern Mendicant Orders (Cork University Press, 2024); John Crowley et al. (eds), Atlas of the Irish Civil War (Cork University Press, 2024); James Doherty, Irish Liberty, British Democracy: The Third Irish Home Rule Crisis, 1909–14 (Cork University Press, 2019); John Crowley et al. (eds), Atlas of the Irish Revolution (Cork University Press, 2017); Jim MacLaughlin & Seán Beattie (eds), An Historical, Environmental and Cultural Atlas of County Donegal (Cork University Press, 2013); Brian Forristal & Billy Ramsell, This is Poetry: Higher Level Leaving Cert 2015 (Forum Publications, 2013); Dermot Keogh & Diarmuid Whelan (eds), Gerald Goldberg: A Tribute (Mercier Press, 2008).
Indexing: Archivium Hibernicum (annual); Richard Murphy, The Kick: A Memoir of the Poet Richard Murphy (Attic Press, 2017); Bertrand Cardin, Colum McCann’s Intertexts: Books Talk to One Another (Cork University Press, 2016); George O’Brien, The Irish Novel, 1960–2010 (Cork University Press, 2015); Paddy Woodworth, Our Once and Future Planet: Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century (University of Chicago Press, 2013); Tom Hartley, Milltown Cemetery: The History of Belfast, Written in Stone (Blackstaff Press, 2014); Sarah-Anne Buckley, The Cruelty Man: Child Welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland, 1889–1956 (Manchester University Press, 2013); Thomas O’Connor, Irish Jansenists, 1600–70: Religion and Politics in Flanders, France, Ireland and Rome (Four Courts Press, 2008).
Typesetting: Ray Burke, Joyce County: Galway and James Joyce (Artisan House, 2022); Richard Murphy, The Kick: A Memoir of the Poet Richard Murphy (Attic Press, 2017); Bertrand Cardin, Colum McCann’s Intertexts: Books Talk to One Another (Cork University Press, 2016); John Horne & Edward Madigan (eds), Towards Commemoration: Ireland in War and Revolution, 1912–1923 (Royal Irish Academy, 2013); Archivium Hibernicum (annual); Decies: Journal of the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society (annual); Fintan Vallely (ed.), The Companion to Irish Traditional Music (Cork University Press, 2011).
Additional information
Skills: Freelance copy-editor, proofreader, indexer, typesetter since 1994.
Work undertaken: Copy-editing, proofreading, indexing and typesetting of academic and non-academic texts, including books, reports, articles, theses, websites, etc.
Special interests: History, politics, literature, sociology, biography, travel, sport, fiction.
Programs: Expert in InDesign, QuarkXPress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Word.