‘I’ve got a book in me too.’ For a writer it must be the most depressing sentence in the English, Irish, or any language; the casual conversation with a relative...

Let’s face it: memoir is a disreputable genre. It’s often miserable, sometimes ghosted, and relies upon a shaky memory to pretend its truths.  In the end the promise that we...

The truth is, Trapped in Iran was not planned in any great detail. As professional – and impressive  ­–  as it may sound to say Samieh and I sat down...

The wonderful Nora Ephron summed it up beautifully when she said in one of the essays from her memoir I Hate my Neck: “ I can’t believe how real life...

Ghost Writing came to me in an email. My name had been put forward to a young Limerick lady, Patricia Ingle, who was setting out to write her story after...

Memoirs have become increasingly popular in recent years.   Since Julius Ceasar published accounts of his battle years around 50BC, memoirs have been a constant presence in published literature. But in...

I have just launched my first book entitled A Violation Against Women. This book is the culmination of twenty years of distress and trauma following my experiences at Our Lady...

There was a time when only movie stars and the super rich produced memoirs but these days the art of memoir writing has captured the imagination of a wider public....

Most of us begin our writing journeys via diaries/journals. Those juvenilia are worth their weight in gold particularly when it comes to opening the storehouse of memory, mining personal experience,...

Over the past few years, I’ve been co-writing other people’s memoirs. Although I absolutely love what I do, it does have its challenges. First of all, I have to make...