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...

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...

Writing this book was an amazing journey and a transformative experience. I had to move abroad and venture out into the world to with connect my deepest core wounds on...

You never know what will happen when you write a book. I wrote the book The Actor to celebrate the life and work of my grandfather, Ira Allen. Ira was...