I didn’t realise that there was something wrong with me until I went to school. It was the summer of 1955. I was not yet five years old and my...

Contrary to popular thinking, evolution didn’t retire once people emerged from the mists to go about the business of taming primordial landscapes. Evolution is alive and well and Irish writing...

My parents did me no favours as a writer. It seems to me that most writers, especially Irish ones, were blessed with parents who imparted sufficient neuroses to sustain them...

Old  bookshops are places one goes to replenish the soul. It’s the smell of them old books that returns me to a time when they were more appreciated than they...

I didn’t set out to write a collection of Tragedies but, like life sometimes, it just worked out that way. A challenging year full of professional and personal setbacks was...

My journey into writing and books in general started quite early! Already when I was in elementary school, I started to take books stealthily from the city library, and it...

Something very special happened in Newbridge Community Library on Friday 4th October at 7 pm with the launch of a new anthology penned by local writers as part of the...

Connie Jessop has always wanted to write books.  She was just waiting for a “big idea”, an original concept. That came in the form of a picture book called Alex...

Many people ask where I get my characters from.  The funny thing is, I do not base them on real people or create them as people who would make a...

When I was twenty, I abandoned my full-time job as an admin assistant in a central heating company to become a full-time writer. Yes, I was a foolish dreamer. But...