Wide-a-Bleedin-Wake at 4:00 AM: On Words, Corsets, and Being Different-ed
Wide-a-Bleedin-Wake: On Being Different-ed Awake since 2.45 am, having spoken to someone else who’s awake on WhatsApp, another cigarette, with good-intentioned hot chocolate in my hand. I’m supposed to go back to bed and settle down like a good writer, put the phone away and maybe listen to some white noise, but I can’t. I […]
Irish History – What Irish Poets and Writers Know
Silent Irish Voices – Irish Poets and Writers Know This I wrote chapter one of Coming Home some time ago and then returned last week to claim my rights- my heritage and history as an Irish writer- needing to add Bailieborough or Bailieboro /ˈbeɪlibərə/; Irish: to the opening of the chapter: ‘A Mother Sixteen is […]
Homemade Beef Ravioli
Homemade Beef Ravioli It’s the 9th of December, and I’m sitting here, three days away from the anniversary of my husband’s death, on 12th December 2017. It feels extremely unusual to be writing again at this time, because this was when I was frantically trying to get my book ready for publication on the anniversary […]