Book Launch Dermot L Martyn
Date: Thursday 28th May 2026
Venue: Seanchaí- Kerry Writers’ Museum
Time: 12 PM
Hard Sums and Soft Stories
As part of a family genealogy project, remarkable literary discovery emerged: a collection of short stories written over eighty years ago by Professor Martin J. Newell (Máirtín Ó Tnúthail), affectionately known to family and friends as ‘Brod’. The stories were found among the papers of his son, Fr Eamonn Newell, whose wish was that they would one day be published.
Dating over eighty years ago, these stories were written after Brod had embarked on a course in short story writing with a London based publishing house. We are therefore delighted to fulfil Eamonn’s wish and present this collection of stories by Brod, under his pseudonym Dermot L.Martyn, together with our genealogy findings which give context to his life. We are therefore pleased to bring ‘Hard Sums and Soft Stories’ to publication.