Declan O'rourke

Breaking through aged 15 with a song, “Brazil”, that rails against corruption in international football, Declan McKenna revealed himself as a unique, thoughtful lyricist with a knack for scruffy guitar pop galvanised by classic hooks. His debut album confirms that reputation, investigating police brutality and media bias on the baroque indie rock of “Isombard” and highlighting irresponsible reporting of LGBT issues on “Paracetamol”’s charmingly wonky electro-pop. Best of all is “The Kids Don’t Wanna Come Home”, which throbs with all the confusion and optimism of youth.

Absolute Zero Cool is the latest novel from Declan Burke, one of Ireland’s most innovative crime fiction writers. ‘A genuinely original take on noir, inventive and funny.’ JOHN BANVILLE Absolute Zero Cool is a post-modern take on the crime thriller genre. Adrift in the half-life limbo of an unpublished novel, hospital porter Billy needs to up the stakes. Euthanasia simply isn’t shocking anymore; would blowing up his hospital be enough to see Billy published, or be damned? What follows is a gripping tale that subverts the crime genre’s grand tradition of liberal sadism, a novel that both excites and disturbs in equal measure…

Declan's French FlashCards is a fully configurable audio-based French vocabulary flash-card program. The program has been designed to help students learn a large number of French words as quickly as possible in a systematic but fun and simple way.