On a harsh estate in Drogheda

They came for him Christmas Eve

Some mess with contraband cigarettes

Smithereened his kneecaps with hammers

Cut his tongue out with pliers

Before he died they gave him one final request

With a fortuitous foreknowledge of International Sign Language 

He asked that after he had breathed his last

That they wash down his corpse with detergent

And lay him out in his beloved Man Utd kit

Which to give these murderers their credit they did

Jones Irwin teaches Philosophy and Education in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. He has published original monographs on philosophy and aesthetics, including texts on Jacques Derrida's Deconstruction and Slavoj Žižek’s Psychoanalysis. He has published poetry most recently in Poetry London, Espacio Fronterizo (Borderland/ Espace Frontière),  Showbear Family Circus, Passengers Journal, Plainsongs, The Dewdrop, Cathexis NorthWest, Hare’s Paw, In Parentheses and with Wingless Dreamer, Moonstone Press and Tofu Ink Press. 'The Female Rimbaud' was nominated by Tofu Ink Press for a Pushcart Award in Autumn 2021. His creative fiction was also recently published in Kairos Magazine, The Decadent Review, The Festival Review, Into the Void, Mignolo Arts, Wild Roof Journal and Critical Read and his flash fiction was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. His vision is of a postmodern existentialist, with a dash of noir mixed in with a progressivist ethic.

He is also currently preparing a book on existential themes, to be published with Routledge, London in later 2023. His first Chapbook of poems, entitled 'GHOST TOWN' was published by Moonstone Press, Philadelphia, US, in later summer 2022.