WRITING – I write from necessity. If I’m not writing, I’m miserable. I’ve written lots of non-fiction over the years but I reached a turning point in 2009 when I was short listed for the Virginia [Woolf] prize for my novel, Bone and Blood, published in 2014. Now every day is a writing day wherever I am.
Gunther
Gunther will be my third novel. It is about writing and AI Das Buch erscheint im Herbst. Stay tuned!
Michel-Michelle
My second novel Michel-Michelle challenges fixed notions of gender and seeks to increase awareness of diversity in ourselves, our friends, our families, and others.
Bone and Blood
My first novel, Bone and Blood, was inspired by a visit to Ravensbrück concentration camp near Berlin where I found out some Irish women had been imprisoned during the Second World War.
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ULSTER BORDER Twelve
Cross-community initiatives celebrated by the NI Women’s Coalition continue but success has been restricted by high news-grabbing polarised politics and manipulation. #Brexit threatens the fragile #Belfast Peace Agreement of 1998. Would #British and #Irish politicians have succeeded in drawing up…
Ulster Border Eleven
Insights into Ulster Border tensions have been transformed by Irish Times journalist, Freya Mc Clements @freyamcc from Derry. Her interviews and insights give insights into the frustration of people like Jim Wilson, a former member of a loyalist paramilitary group…
Ulster Border Ten
The Royal British Legion club is a centre of social activity and remembrance for British-Irish veterans in Ulster’s Castlederg in Northern Ireland. Our memories are long and bitter on the border foiling attempts to put history into museums, social clubs,…
Ulster Border Nine
In the violent confrontations in the 1970’s 80’s and 90’s, checkpoints manned by British soldiers at border crossings became another image of our polarised society. The „Troubles“ delayed the impact of UK and Irish joint membership of the European Union…
Ulster Border Eight
In Ulster, whether Irish or British or a mix, we all share a legacy of violence, death, exploitation, injury, and trauma in our families. Denise Blake’s poem Wild Horses celebrates a small victory over the British war veterans brought to…
Ulster Border Seven
#Strabane of the 1950’s and 1960’s was bombed and developed into history. The Town Hall, the Convent of Mercy, and many shops exist now only in my memory. Also gone is my father’s pub on Quinn’s corner with the old…