Caoilinn Hughes.
When Caoilinn was ten, a pastiche she’d written of Father Ted was performed at her school. Encouraged, she started a novel. “I asked my parents for feedback. When they laughed, hysterically, (it wasn’t a comedy,) I […]
Emilie Pine
Starting life in Dublin, Emilie’s family moved to London when she was a teenager, where she dropped out of school and became a ‘wild child.’ At 16, saved by a private school, she gained a scholarship […]
Review. Andrea Mara
In the late nineties I wrote an article titled ‘mobile manners.’ Commenting on the disturbance caused by phone conversations on the beach, at the theatre, and during a funeral mass, I suggested that some guidelines were […]
Cethan Leahy
In college Cethan wrote short film scripts and had a story long-listed for a Penguin Competition. “I got to a workshop. It was really cool.” After his MA, Cethan got an internship in EMC, placing data […]
Caroline O’Donoghue
Graduating from UCC, Caroline emigrated to London, working on film sets, in recruitment agencies, and doing bar work whilst pitching as a freelance writer. Now a contributing editor for The-Pool.com, she writes for a variety of […]
Julia Kelly
I first met Julia Kelly in 2007 the day after her debut had been launched. She told me she was wrecked, but she looked amazing in her low-cut, body-hugging black dress. With My Lazy Eye had […]
Moire O’Sullivan
Moire’s first interest lay in science. And though she was athletic as a child, she dropped netball at 18 to concentrate on the Viola. “I played in the Ulster Youth Orchestra,” she says. After university, Moire […]
Rebecca O’Connor
Brought up in County Cavan, Rebecca initially wanted to study medicine, but she decided on English, and worked in various jobs in London whilst taking her MA. “Afterwards, I got a job as a general assistant […]
Kit De Waal
Reading Kit De Waal’s second novel I lost all sense of time. Transported, I was swept into the world of Mona, a lonely Irish woman who, approaching sixty, thinks back to the early seventies, and the […]
Review. A Normal Family by Henry Norman & Angela Pell
There have been many books about autism published over the years – heartrending accounts of the struggles – the fights for services – and occasionally tales of triumph over adversity – but A Normal Family is […]
Paul Howarth
Paul wasn’t a bookish child, “But I was imaginative,” he says. “There was narrative in the games I played; there were always stories.” After college, Paul practised law, as a solicitor, for six years. “Then I […]
Lorna Sixsmith
Brought up on a farm, Lorna loved reading. She wrote her own version of the Famous Five. After a year studying dental nursing, she took various jobs in Dublin and London, then she returned to college. […]