Books | McManus Stories

A Thousand Words

Images, flash stories, and free verse by Michael McManus.

Essays on land, emigration, and identity from Connacht to County Durham.

Michael McManus examines private policing, public beats, and changing choices in security provision.

Michael McManus traces famine-era movement from Kilronan and other Irish communities into the developing industrial townships of County Durham.

Michael McManus combines documentary history and Y-DNA evidence to examine the relationship between the McManus and O’Conor families of Connaught.

Essays on legal, social, and industrial evolution in County Durham.

A sociological history of Durham County Asylum during its formative years, 1858–1871.

A collection of well-versed reflections and images by Michael McManus.

Short stories and verse by Michael McManus.

A Foucauldian analysis of sanctuary at Durham Cathedral.

A study of St Godric, somatic capital, and the privatisation of the sacred at Finchale Priory.

Michael McManus explores the historical sociology of policing, public administration, inequality, and Irish immigration in Victorian Durham.

Essays on institutional power and social control in County Durham.

An evaluation of private security patrol in public residential areas of the United Kingdom.

Stories forged in Albert Camus’s philosophy of the absurd.

Stories forged in the surveillance theory of Michel Foucault.

Ten short stories about emotional and physical burdens.

Michael McManus gathers fragments from his family’s experiences of wartime, coal, work, and survival.