Researching Non-Fiction Archives

Reclaiming the Hag: Writing with Lore by Tracy Fahey

Reclaiming the Hag: author Tracy Fahey on Writing with Lore in Queens of the Crone

On Collaboration by Julie Summers and Jochen Hemmleb

Julie Summers and Jochen Hemmleb, authors of The Everest Mystery, on how working together on

Writing True-Crime (Part 2) by Barry Cummins

Writing true-crime books is an important public service, writes the author of Buried Secrets, Barry

Writing True-Crime (Part 1) by Barry Cummins

Writing true-crime books is an important public service, writes the author of Buried Secrets, Barry

Managing Interviews by Alan Hester

Using other people’s words: Alan Hester, author of the biography Tiny Keeper, on managing interviews

The Challenge of Writing Creative Non-Fiction by John Goodall

John Goodall on the problems and challenges of writing the creative non-fiction romantic memoir, The

Writing About Movies (Part 2) by Wayne Byrne

Part 2 of this article, in which author Wayne Byrne looks back on and updates

Extreme Research by Sophie Duffy

How a Bra Saved my Life and Helped me Write a Book In the summer

Writing about the Movies by Wayne Byrne

I am rarely comfortable offering literary advice. I am not someone who was an insatiable

Researching Women’s History by Henrietta Heald

‘My dear – for sheer exciting experience, give me a town to light – 70-miles-an-hour

Experience and Research: Writing Big Trails by Kathy Rogers

When people ask me, have you walked all the trails in Big Trails: Great Britain

Editing Personal Diaries for Publication by Cormac K.H. O’Malley

There were many issues involved in publishing ‘Nobody’s Business’: The Aran Diaries of Ernie O’Malley

Writing History by Tim Carey: Hanged for Murder

Much of what is written and discussed about the ‘process’ of writing usually refers to

Proving the Paranormal: States of Denial

States Of Denial: The Tuskar Rock Incident And Other Mysteries has recently been published by

Starting Your Family History

John Grenham is an expert on tracing your ancestors, and is shortly to appear at

Mark McShane’s Neutral Shores

Dundalk born Mark McShane’s debut Neutral Shores, Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic, was penned mainly

Gathering Oral History with Bernard Ó Ceallaigh

The idea for my PhD thesis, which later became a book, came initially from my

Writing Blasphemers & Blackguards: The Irish Hellfire Clubs

When I was studying in NUI Galway in the late 1990s, one of the books

Researching Local History: The Flame and the Candle by Dominic Price

In 2008 I set out to research some extra background on the the men and

The Etiquette of Interviewing

Damian Corless, author of You’ll Ruin Your Dinner, the ideal gift book for anyone with a