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Read the new book, Conflict and Lipstick, which showcases 100 original song lyrics written by Eamonn Maguire. Conflict and Lipstick is the first of five volumes in The Music Of My Mind series.

Gossip Advice showcases 100 original song lyrics written by Eamonn Maguire. Gossip Advice is the second of five volumes in The Music Of My Mind Series. This collection was published at the end of 2016 by CompletelyNovel.

Random Thoughts showcases 100 original song lyrics written by Eamonn Maguire. Random Thoughts is the fifth and final volumes in The Music Of My Mind Series. This was published by CompletelyNovel in 2016.

Sixteen Soldiers showcases 100 original song lyrics written by Eamonn Maguire. Sixteen Soldiers is the fourth of five volumes in The Music Of My Mind Series. This book was published by CompletelyNovel in 2016.

Liberty Burn showcases 100 original song lyrics written by Eamonn Maguire. Liberty Burn is the third of five volumes in The Music Of My Mind Series. This book was published in 2016 by CompletelyNovel.

This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, in analysis informed by the critical writings of Michael J. Sandel, Steven Pinker, Julia Kristeva, and in particular Amartya Sen on violence, justice, equality and the law. In McDonagh’s works, failures to investigate adequately criminal actions are matched by multiple forced confessions and umpteen miscarriages of justice. The author explores McDonagh’s creative worlds as ones where distinctions between victim and perpetrator and guilt and innocence are precarious, where the burden of truth seldom reaches the threshold of beyond reasonable doubt and where the punishments and rewards of justice are applied randomly. This project considers the abject nature of justice in McDonagh’s writing, with the vast implications of justice being fragile, suspect, piecemeal, deviant, haphazard and random. Tentative forms of justice are tempered and then threatened by provocative, anarchic and abject humour. As the author argues, McDonagh’s writing cleverly circulates rival, incompatible and comparative systems of justice in order to substantiate the necessities and virtues of justice.