Kildare based psychotherapist to launch book series on boys, masculinity and the digital world
Luke Devlin is launching Strength and Silence Series in Tallaght on June 25
A psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and writer, who was based in County Kildare is launching the first two books in his Strength and Silence Series. Taking place on Thursday, June 25 at 7pm in Rua Red, Tallaght, Luke Devlin will be on hand at the launch to help explore what masculinity means in today’s society.
“Between Strength and Silence” and “Masculinity Under the Algorithm” explore how boys are shaped into men, how silence and emotional restriction take hold, and how digital culture is reshaping masculinity for a new generation.
At a time when public conversations about boys and men are often reactive, polarised, or reduced to slogans, these books try to step back and ask earlier questions: how are boys formed, what does silence protect, and what is the digital world doing to identity, belonging, and emotional life?
Both books will be available to purchase from Amazon from Monday 1 June, ahead of the launch.
Luke has worked in Kildare as part of the Headsup organisation over the last ten years, delivering bespoke male centric workshops.
"I worked for two years with Newbridge family resource centre designing a male specific social isolation project, and practiced privately in Newbridge and Naas for many years. All of these experiences have informed both books,” he said.
Founder of The Manam Project, a therapeutic and creative practice exploring the emotional lives of men, his work focuses on the psychological and cultural forces that shape masculinity, including male trauma, silence, emotional development, and the changing environments in which boys grow up today.
Luke has worked for over two decades with men navigating trauma, shame, dissociation, and the long emotional legacy of silence. Alongside clinical work,
he writes and teaches about the intersection of masculinity, mental health, and relational life. He is the author of The Strength and Silence Series, as well as the novel The Anatomy of a Silent Scream.
The Strength and Silence Series is a four-book exploration of the emotional lives of men. Across formation, digital culture, trauma, and relational harm, the series examines how boys become men, how silence takes shape, how modern environments influence masculine identity, and what can happen when emotional life is shaped more by endurance than by language.
Written in a clear, uncluttered, and accessible style, the series is intended not just for professionals or academics, but for ordinary readers who want to understand boys, men, trauma, relationships, and emotional life more deeply. Serious, psychologically informed, and grounded in lived and clinical reality, the series brings complex questions into public language without sacrificing depth or nuance.
When asked why release these books now, he replied; “Because public conversations about boys and men are often reactive, polarised, or reduced
to statistics and slogans. These books try to offer something more thoughtful and useful: a way of understanding how boys are shaped, what silence has protected, and what it has cost.”
So what makes this work different?
“It does not treat men as problems to be solved. Instead, it looks at formation, belonging, silence, emotional restriction, and environment in a connected way. It is serious and psychologically informed, but written in a clear, uncluttered, accessible voice,” he explained.
Luke emphasises that The Manam Project is the wider home for this work through support, learning, and storytelling.
"It creates a space where writing, reflection, and conversation about men’s emotional lives can come together in a public and accessible way.”
He hopes people leave the launch with a “clearer sense that conversations about boys and men do not have to begin at crisis point. We can begin earlier, with formation, belonging, language, and the environments boys grow up in.”
General readers, parents, teachers, clinicians, youth workers and community audiences are welcome to attend. It if free to attend but you must book your spot on https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/strength-and-silence-series-book-launch-at-rua-red-tallaght-tickets-1988065252688