To write about Irish women as protagonists in their stories. To research, understand and depict important periods of Irish modern...

I'm editing the second historical novel in a trilogy about the Irish Famine years. Annie Power and Jane Keating both left Ireland in the...

I used to work in Northampton, and some of my students came from the Caroline Chisholm School, in the south of the county. The name of...

Just reading an excellent article about Antony Gormley. ‘I’m inviting people to explore the conditions of their own living.’ (Guardian...

Jane, will live a long life. Born in Galway in 1830, she will be almost eighty-six years old on the 24th April 1916, and she will witness...

I took this pic a couple of days ago. The movement of the water seems to enhance the shape of the swan's wings. Light reflects through...

#HistoricalFiction So, yesterday, I signed up with #Ingramspark. The self-publishing arm is similar to KDP, but Ingramspark are also...

My daughter, Nancy, asked me why I had chosen the name, Jane, for one of the two protagonists in my first self-published novel,...

13th April 2022. Two minute read. .My problem with writing the final chapters, and scenes, was to get both women, one dead and one alive,...

How many times did you re-upload your manuscript? I uploaded mine at least three times. Here's why, and here's the screen-shot of my...

The Journey My protagonist, Annie Power, and her siblings, left Ireland in June 1846. In 'Daughters of the Famine Road,' they had planned...

It’s a strange experience to finally publish my first novel, Daughters of the Famine Road. I’m so pleased I can do this on Amazon KDP. I...

Asenath Nicholson was an America philanthropist who toured Ireland twice in the 1840s. The first book she wrote, "Ireland Welcomes the...

Imagine a small girl, six years old, living in Skibbereen, County Cork, in 1848, during the Famine Years. Her name was Agnes Mary Clerke,...

So, my novel, ‘Daughters of the Famine Road,’ is now finished and on Amazon Books. Next up is marketing. I’ve been thinking about trying...

A. I began to write my historical novel, ‘Daughters of the Famine Road,’ I started with locations in Ireland that I was most familiar...

I’m just at the point of completing the final edit of my novel, “Daughters of the Famine Road.” I’ll upload it, today or tomorrow, on...

"In which a word or a phrase is applied to an object or action that it does not literally apply to in order to imply a resemblance."...

I recently completed a Masters in Creative Writing but in this short course, @OUFreeLearning, - 'What happens to you when you read?' I...

wrote 'On Another Man's Wounds' while in exile in South America between 1929 and 1932. O'Malley, a middle class medical student, joined...