He has written a memoir of his time in the army, called The Lebanon Diaries (2007), and his experiences in the Middle East have greatly informed his literary work.
His stories have appeared in The Sunday Times Magazine, The Fiddlehead Can, The Malahat Review Can, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Stand UK, Literary Orphans USA, The Cortland Review USA, The Bridport Prize Anthology, Best Phoenix Irish Short Stories, The Sunday Tribune...His prose featured in the National Art Gallery's 'Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art.'
His work is published by Simon & Schuster UK, Maverick House, Poolbeg Press and New Island.
Valley of the Peacock Angel(2013) The Only Glow of the Day (2010) - which features the lives of the Wrens of the Curragh[3] The Silence of the Glasshouse (2008) The Broken Cedar (2003) After Kafra (2001) Us (2000) "Iapetus, '81" The Mango War and Other Stories (2009) Deadly Confederacies & Other Stories (2014).
Nominated for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Award 2012 for his short story about the Kurdistan atrocities in 1988, 'Valley of the Peacock Angel.'