Justin meets acclaimed author and songwriter Peter Murphy .

Peter is a writer and spoken-word performer from Wexford, Ireland. He is the author of two novels, John the Revelator (2009) and Shall We Gather at the River (2013), published by Faber & Faber in Ireland and the UK, and by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US and Canada. Peter’s journalism and non-fiction has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, the Irish Times, Hot Press and Huffington Post. He has released two spoken word/music albums with the Revelator Orchestra, The Sounds of John the Revelator and The Brotherhood of the Flood. He currently performs live under the name Cursed Murphy with his band the Resistance, and his first single ‘Foxhole Prayer’ was released last September. He was also writer-in-residence at Carlow College St. Patrick's in winter 2018. Peter is currently completing his third book and recording his first album under the Cursed Murphy banner. A new single, 'The Bells of Hell', will be released this autumn.