Patrick McCabe review: Monaghan author provides a Howl of a night at UCC 

Patrick McCabe was joined by musicians to soundtrack his various readings and other flights of fancy as part of the Western Frequencies strand of Cork Midsummer Festival 

Patrick McCabe read from his own work, as well as snippets from Allen Ginsberg and Patrick Kavanagh. 

Patrick McCabe with David Murphy and Michael Lightborne, Howl On, The Hub, UCC, for Cork Midsummer Festival, ★★★★☆

 If Patrick McCabe did not invent the genre of Bog Gothic, he certainly perfected it in his 1992 novel, The Butcher Boy, surely the most sympathetic portrait of a murderer that has ever been committed to the page. As is evidenced in his most recent, and eleventh, novel, Poguemahone, McCabe’s anarchic spirit remains very much intact, and we are all the better for it.