
Educational qualifications
MA
Experience
Freelance copy-editor, proofreader, indexer, typesetter since 1994. Expert in InDesign, QuarkXPress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Word.
Services offered
Copy-editing, proofreading, indexing and typesetting of academic and non-academic texts
Media
Books, journals, reports, articles, theses, websites
Subject areas
History, politics, education, literature, sociology, biography, travel, sport, fiction
Examples of work undertaken
COPY-EDITING
Tim Fanning, Don Juan O’Brien: An Irish Adventurer in Nineteenth-century South America, Cork University Press, 2020; Neil O’Boyle & Marcus Free (eds), Sport, the Media and Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Cork University Press, 2020; Irish Review [journal], Cork University Press, 2020; James Doherty, Irish Liberty, British Democracy: The Third Irish Home Rule Crisis, 1909–14, Cork University Press, 2019; Fionntán de Brún, Revivalism and Modern Irish Literature: The Anxiety of Transmission and the Dynamics of Renewal, Cork University Press, 2019; Niamh O’Sullivan (ed.), Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger, Quinnipiac University Press, 2018; Harry Browne, Public Sphere, Cork University Press, 2018; Dermot Lucey & Jimmy Condon, Living Geography, C.J. Fallon, 2018; Richard Thorn, No Artificial Limits: Ireland’s Regional Technical Colleges, Institute of Public Administration, 2017; Bertrand Cardin, Colum McCann’s Intertexts: Books Talk to One Another, Cork University Press, 2016; William L. Pressly, James Barry’s Murals at the Royal Society of Arts: Envisioning a New Public Art, Cork University Press, 2014; Angélique Day, Glimpses of Ireland’s Past: The Ordnance Survey Memoir Drawings: Topography and Technique, Royal Irish Academy, 2014; John Horne & Edward Madigan (eds), Towards Commemoration: Ireland in War and Revolution, 1912–1923, Royal Irish Academy, 2013; Alison Hood, Interpreting Chopin: Analysis and Performance, Ashgate, 2014; Seán Campbell, ‘Irish Blood, English Heart’: Second-generation Irish Musicians in England, Cork University Press, 2011; Laurence Fenton, The Young Ireland Rebellion and Limerick, Mercier Press, 2010.
PROOFREADING
Faith Binckes and Kathryn Laing, Hannah Lynch (1859–1904): Irish Writer, Cosmopolitan, New Woman, Cork University Press, 2019; John Crowley, Donal Ó Drisceoil, Mike Murphy & John Borgonovo (eds), Atlas of the Irish Revolution, Cork University Press, 2017; Heather Laird, Commemoration, Cork University Press, 2017; Jim MacLaughlin & Seán Beattie (eds), An Historical, Environmental and Cultural Atlas of County Donegal, Cork University Press, 2013; Brian Forristal & Billy Ramsell, This is Poetry: Higher Level Leaving Cert 2015, Forum Publications, 2013; Dermot Keogh & Diarmuid Whelan (eds), Gerald Goldberg: A Tribute, Mercier Press, 2008; Ann O’Sullivan & John Sheehan, Iveragh Peninsula: An Archaeological Survey of South Kerry, Cork University Press, 1996.
INDEXING
Kathryn Laing & Sinéad Mooney (eds), Irish Women Writers at the Turn of the 20th Century: Alternative Histories, New Narratives, Edward Everett Root Publishers, 2020;
Niamh O’Sullivan (ed.), Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger, Quinnipiac University Press, 2018; Brian Boydell and Barra Boydell, Rebellious Ferment: A Dublin Musical Memoir and Diary, Cork University Press, 2018; Richard Thorn, No Artificial Limits: Ireland’s Regional Technical Colleges, Institute of Public Administration, 2017; Tom Hartley, Milltown Cemetery: The History of Belfast, Written in Stone, Blackstaff Press, 2014; Paddy Woodworth, Our Once and Future Planet: Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century, University of Chicago Press, 2013; Sarah-Anne Buckley, The Cruelty Man: Child Welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland, 1889–1956, Manchester University Press, 2013; George O’Brien, The Irish Novel, 1960–2010, Cork University Press, 2012; Thomas O’Connor, Irish Jansenists, 1600–70: Religion and Politics in Flanders, France, Ireland and Rome, Four Courts Press, 2008.
TYPESETTING
James Doherty, Irish Liberty, British Democracy: The Third Irish Home Rule Crisis, 1909–14, Cork University Press, 2019; Dermot Lucey & Jimmy Condon, Living Geography, C.J. Fallon, 2018; John Horne & Edward Madigan (eds), Towards Commemoration: Ireland in War and Revolution, 1912–1923, Royal Irish Academy, 2013; Archivium Hibernicum (annual); Fintan Vallely (ed.), Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Cork University Press, 2011.