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It’s no secret that I’m a massive fan of mythology; I have shelves and shelves of folktales and legends in my little home library. Yet I’ve recently been taken aback upon discovering that my children are being taught Irish legends in primary school as “history”. In my last novel (written before returning to Ireland with the […]

So we’ve had Christmas and, as Irish radio plays rather a lot of Christmas music, more than once I heard John ask, “And what have you done?” (He isn’t smarmy about that at all, is he?) Well, John, firstly I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. This is because I’m aware of behavioural economics and know […]

November: the Holy Month for Writers. Nearly 300,000 word fiends have signed up to global writing fest that is NaNoWriMo (that’s National Novel Writing Month for those not in the know). This year I’m one of them but I’m not aiming to achieve the universal goal of completing a novel that is 50,000 words long […]