Hanberry was invited by RTE to come on board as writer and researcher on their recent programme 'Search for Ireland's Best Loves Folk Song'.
Paul Perry, reviewing the collection 'At Grattan Road' for the Irish Times, said it was "bursting at the seams with fine poems".
An early draft of his biography of Oscar Wilde and his extraordinary family More Lives Than One was shortlisted for the Kingston University Non-Fiction Prize.
He has been invited to read and deliver workshops and talks at many literature festivals and has been broadcast on Ireland's RTE, Lyric FM, Galway Bay FM, Newstalk, Midwest Radio and other local stations as was as Cape Cod Radio in the US and various stations in Australia.
He runs occasional creative writing and poetry appreciation workshops and delivers talks on his non-fiction works around the country including a show 'On Raglan Road' which includes live performances of a selection of songs from his book of the same name and an illustrated talk on the women who inspired some of Ireland's great love songs such as 'Grace', 'Nancy Spain', 'The Voyage' etc.