Fin Keegan

You have fetched up at Distant Station, a weblog by writer and internet services developer Fin Keegan.

My writing has been described as as “exuberantly satiric and acid-edged” by the Daily Mail and “riotous…brilliant”, by MetroLife Dublin.

I live with my wife and two sons near the Atlantic coast of Ireland. Born and raised in Dublin, I returned home in 2007 after 14 years in the United States.

While in the US, I worked as a Producer (and occasional Host) for Nevada Public Radio KNPR, earned an MFA at Columbia University, and interned at The New Yorker magazine.

Before moving to America, I earned a BA in English and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin and, among other things, sold magazines on the streets of Paris.

My short plays Hibernian Rhapsody and Hibernian Acronymy were performed by Painted Filly Theatre in Temple Bar in 2006 and 2007 respectively. A companion piece, Sing, Hibernia, appeared in March 2008 at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin.

My full-length play Kamchatka was published in the literary magazine 3rd Bed.

An excerpt from my novel Grace and the Fusilier was performed on the BBC World Service in 1998. Ten years later, another novel, Utopia Closes was a semi-finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.

Visit my Internet Services Company at mendr.net

Read excerpts of my writing here

Hear my radio work here.

Or read through my weblog posts on the following topics, weighted here by volume…