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Housed In My Imagination
Every August I go on holidays to a special place on the Dingle peninsula. It’s outside the small Irish-speaking village of Ballyferriter...
Art and Poetry
This morning this collaboration of poetry and art arrived in my Inbox. It’s part of the Poetry and Art from Ireland, celebrating...


A Very Sociable Media Type of Day
Sigh! It’s all so very difficult, this whole social media business. But when can I do? I belong to a generation when tweeting was purely...
And The Next Big Thing Blog Hop Just Keeps Going and Going!
I asked June Caldwell to participate in the Blog Hop. Knowing June, I reckoned there’d be sparks sparking from her contribution. I...
Blog Hop Continues
Last week I participated in The Next Big Thing Blog Hop – and, now, I’ve just received the first tag response.Padraig Hanratty is one of...


The Next Big Thing – An Author’s Blog Hop
Dianne Ascroft, author of Dancing Shadows, Tramping Hooves:A Short Story Collection and Hitler and Mars Bars, tagged me in The Next Big...


What to Buy the Man in Your Life for Christmas
Girls – it’s that time of the year again! Time to put on the red hat with the tassel and think – what on earth can I buy Him this year?...


Your First Novel – The Halfway Stage
Novels usually begin with an idea. Sometimes that idea comes fully-formed and ready to be written with a cast of fleshed-out characters...


Is the Human Voice an Endangered Species?
Last week I decided to check my mobile phone bill. For two months I’d noticed the same mistake. I was being billed for a service I had...


The Clamour of the Lamb
As Cill Rialaig—the artist’s retreat on the beautiful and rugged Ballinskelligs Peninsula―celebrates twenty-years in existence I can’t...
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