mike_mcgb

My name is Mike McGrath-Bryan, and I’m currently a features journalist for the Irish Examiner and The Echo newspapers in Cork City, Ireland; and Bandcamp Daily, the feature-content outlet of the popular digital indie music service in Oakland, California, USA.

In March of 2025, I made my literary debut with an essay in New Island Books’ anthology of non-fiction from autistic Irish writers, Wired Our Own Way, which stayed on Ireland’s national Paperback Non-Fiction sales charts for three weeks. The book is available now online in ebook and audiobook formats, and physically in Ireland, at all good bookshops.

I opened this website in 2018 as a portfolio for my then-freelance work in arts and media, including: features journalism; booking, promoting and running gigs & events; sound-art and noise; community radio and podcasting; animation production; brief stints in lecturing and photography, etc. A partial CV on my LinkedIn, if you’re curious. Life has changed since this website was last updated in March of 2019, including diagnoses of autism and ADHD.

This website is to be considered in a longterm state of being ‘under construction’, until I have a more comprehensive handle on organising, describing and demonstrating over 15 years of creative and events experience. ‘Til then, see my Linktree for the latest, email me to say hello, or find me on Instagram for pictures of various things I encounter.

Pic: Celeste Burdon Photography