Alison has written for TIME, Aeon, the Guardian, the Conversation, the Tangerine and the Irish Times, amongst other outlets. Here are some recent selected examples.
‘Why a play about Ireland’s native language finds new resonance in Anglo-Irish relations today‘, The Conversation, 10 June 2022.
Derry Girls: the riotous show that shifted the experiences of teenage girls to centre stage‘, The Conversation, 25 May 2022.
‘The Complex History Behind Belfast—and Its Echoes in Present-Day Northern Ireland’, TIME, 12 November 2021. (For a Twitter thread with a list of sources consulted while writing this, please click here).
‘This is no love story: when England met Ireland‘, Aeon, 5 November 2021. (For a Twitter thread with a list of sources consulted while writing this, please click here).
‘Bridgerton and Normal People expose romance’s colonial hangover‘, Al Jazeera, 20 April 2021. (For a Twitter thread with a list of sources consulted while writing this, please click here).
‘Normal people: Kevin and Sadie’s teenage love story‘, RTÉ Brainstorm, 11 August 2020.
Series co-produced with Jason Martin and BBC Northern Ireland on ‘Love Across the Divide’, as part of BBC programming on ‘Books that Changed the World’. May 2020.
‘St Patrick’s Day parade homophobia protest: Paul Muldoon, Roger Casement and the AOH‘, The Irish Times, 14 March 2019.
