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I've lived in the very heart of Ireland for just over a year, now. My partner and I crossed that meandering, century-old Border just as 2019 began its shape-shifting into the year that would be 2020. We were leaving a house in Derry, something I seem to have spent most of my life doing - but this time I was leaving through choice - for reasons other than violence or pain. I was moving to a place where I might finally learn how to stay.

Can the Irish border be described as a ‘thin place’? Never have I read such an eloquent description for the omnipresent border in our psyche. A ‘thin place’ is an odd expression for those unaccustomed to it; the term means somewhere where life and death each feel a little closer. These places, the Kerri ní Dochartaigh writes, “are so thin that you meet yourself in the still point”. In other words, they refract our sense of place, often allowing us to consider where we are — both physically and spiritually — in a more meditative way. Each of us has felt it; it’s a stillness ...

One of Northern Ireland's most haunting and unsolved murders is relived in harrowing detail in a powerful new memoir by a friend of the victim.

This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wanted to write. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the new essay collection, Thin Places, and brought to you by Lit Hub Radio. In this episode, Catherine Lacey, author of the novel  Pew, discusses the impressionability of a religious childhood, how being a stranger in a new town influenced her novel, and the ineffability of voice. From the interview: Jordan Kisner: There’s something you’ve been...

Thin Places by Kerri ní Dochartaigh review – a survivor's story Sean O’Hagan © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer The “thin places” that give this book its title exist in Irish mythology as thresholds or portals to the other side; sites where the veil between this world and the next is most porous. Known to locals through oral stories passed down the generations, they are vestiges of an older, stranger Ireland, their resonance still palpable, Kerri ní Dochartaigh suggests, to those attuned to their otherness. “They are places that ma...