Educational qualifications
BA (Hons) in English Language and Linguistics, Portsmouth University
Training and professional development
On-screen copy-editing, Publishing Training Centre, London, 2000
Languages
French (A-level)
Experience
Over thirty years’ freelance editing
Services offered
Proofreading, copy-editing, indexing, rewriting
Media
Books, journal articles, theses
Subject areas
Academic texts, biography, poetry, literary studies, linguistics, English, music, film, feminism, environment, history, creative writing, art, local history, cookery
Clients include
Academic publishers, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Swets & Zeitlinger, Gandon, Gill & Macmillan, Lilliput Press, Woodfield Press, TownHouse Publishing, Blackhall, Cork County Council, Educational Company of Ireland, local history societies, postgraduate theses, self-publishing authors.
Examples of work undertaken
d’Alton and Milne, Protestant and Irish, CUP, 2019 (proofreading)
Fitzpatrick, Ernest Blythe in Ulster, CUP, 2018 (copy-editing)
Beausang and de Barra, Ina Boyle: A Composer’s Life, CUP, 2018 (proofreading)
O’Regan, Music and Society in Cork, CUP, 2018 (proofreading)
Pakenham, Maria Edgeworth’s Letters from Ireland, Lilliput, 2017 (indexing)
The K Club Cookbook, Atrium, 2015 (copy-editing)
Wycherley, The Cult of Relics in Early Medieval Ireland, Brepols, 2015 (indexing)