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Creative Writing: Behind the books, Excerpts, Ireland & Irish Writing

Help me develop my new novel: IN THE HOUR

September 23, 2020

Do you love fiction? Would you like to help shape my next novel, In the Hour? I now post short…

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Creative Writing: Friday Fiction

After The Rising & Before The Fall: Centenary Edition

September 16, 2020

I’m reissuing my Irish novels in a centenary edition. It’s almost 100 years since the events they describe happened and…

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Creative Writing: Behind the books, Friday Fiction

New Novel Writing Process for IN THE HOUR

September 9, 2020

I am sooooo keen to get back to fiction, even though I’ve a lot of nonfiction projects still to finish….

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Iseult Gonne and WB Yeats in Wartime London

Creative Writing: Excerpts

Friday Fiction: Iseult Gonne and Lucien Millevoye Take Tea

February 28, 2020

Maud and Iseult Gonne are living in Normandy, taking refuge from the war in Paris, when they hear that John MacBride, Maud’s husband, has been executed. This leaves Maud frantic to get back to Ireland. She dispatches Iseult to London, to fetch their friend, the poet Willie Yeats.

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Creative Writing: Excerpts, Friday Fiction

If you read this speech at the start of a novel, would you read on?

November 15, 2019

It’s Friday Fiction here on the blog, so I’ll be blogging Dancing in the Wind, Book Two in the Yeats-Gonne Trilogy here with weekly extracts in the Friday Fiction slot.

I’m thinking of opening Dancing With The Wind with one of Maud Gonne’s fiery political speeches.

Question: Would you read on if this was what you found in the first pages of a book?

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Creative Writing: Friday Fiction, WB Yeats, Maud Gonne, Iseult Gonne

Blogging Dancing in the Wind, Book Two in the Yeats-Gonne Trilogy

October 25, 2019

I have done some shuffling on the fiction front and I’ll be blogging Dancing in the Wind, Book Two in the Yeats-Gonne Trilogy here weekly in the Friday Fiction slot.

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