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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

Maud Gonne hears of John MacBride’s Execution

January 10, 2020

The story has shifted to 1916. Maud and Iseult are living in Normandy, as the first world war wages and in Dublin, Irish freedom fighters have organized a botched insurrection. Many of their Irish friends and acquaintances were involved. This extract describes what happens when Maud Gonne hears of John MacBride’s Execution for his part.

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Creative Writing: Excerpts, Friday Fiction

The execution of John MacBride: Ireland’s Easter Rebellion 1916

November 22, 2019

This is a scene reimagining the execution of John MacBride, Maud Gonne’s husband, for his part in the 1916 Rising. His death was to change life for Maud and Iseult forever.

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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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