
Create Date: Writing Retreat in Wexford, Ireland

Once a year I take myself off for a writing retreat in Wexford, Ireland, where I was born and brought up.
It’s always a highlight of my year for me. It’s bliss to be able to focus on a single aspect of my work for a few days.
The experience was like a three-day-long create date.
I was staying in a small village in Wexford, not far from where I grew up, not unlike the village where my Irish trilogy is set.
Writing Retreat in Wexford, Ireland: Working On A Novel
That’s what I was focussing on, the third book in my Irish Trilogy, In The Hour, the follow-up to After The Rising and Before the Fall. (You can buy a two-for-the-price-of-one edition here)
More about that in my next fiction Friday slot.
In the meantime, here are some pictures, from Carraig-on-Bannow and Slade, on the Hook Penninsula in Wexford.
If you’d like to make a visit to Ireland, it’s a great place to go. Off the tourist trail and magically beautiful.
Inspiringly so.
Writing Retreat in Wexford, Ireland: Surprised by A Poem
I got lots of writing done and over on Instagram you can see a poem about emigration inspired by the picture below, Moonshine over Slade Castle.
It came from nowhere, took me by surprise.
When you’re surprised like that is when you know a creative retreat has done its work.
- Sunrise over Slade
- Sun warming the rocks
- Near Hook Lighthouse
- The wild Atlantic
- Ruins at Hook Church
- Statue of Our Lady Bannow
- Seagull at Slade
- Slade doesn’t even have a shop but it’s a working harbour
- Clouds gather as sun starts to set
- Sundown over Slade Castle
- Moon rising
- Moonshine over Slade Castle