After The Rising & Before The Fall: Centenary Edition
I’m reissuing my Irish novels in a centenary edition. It’s almost 100 years since the events they describe happened and…
Continue readingAs featured in
Tag
I’m reissuing my Irish novels in a centenary edition. It’s almost 100 years since the events they describe happened and…
Continue readingI am sooooo keen to get back to fiction, even though I’ve a lot of nonfiction projects still to finish….
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingThis 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.
Continue readingIt’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?
Continue readingI 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.
Continue readingFriday is Fiction day on the blog. Here is the prologue to In The Hour: The Third Book in the Irish Trilogy.
Continue readingI just dispatched my Life in Fiction Newsletter September 2019. Are you signed up to receive it? For a long…
Continue readingI thought you might enjoy this selection from an in-depth interview I’ve just done with author Regina Joyce Clarke. The full…
Continue readingThis is an extract from Dancing In The Wind, the second book in my WB Yeats trilogy. It is narrated by…
Continue reading