Fiction

Friday Fiction: Remembering the Irish Civil War...

Con McCarthy: died Jan 10th 1923 in the Irish Civil War Ninety-nine years ago, my great-uncle Con (my father's uncle, pictured left), was shot and killed in the Irish Civil...

Isabella Pollexfen Varley: Artist and Aunt of W...

One thing I love about writing historical fiction is doing the research. I often have to stop myself digging too deep while I'm working. I love the thrill of following...

Friday Fiction: Extract from Her Secret Rose-In...

If you don't already know, my Yeats-Gonne book Her Secret Rose (first published in 2015) has morphed into a Yeats-Gonne series. There are both prequels and sequels to that novel...

"A Family, Together" Extract from the novel A L...

This is an extract from the first book in my Yeats-Gonne series, A Life Before This One, a biographical fiction series about Maud Gonne, her daughter Iseult and the poet,...

Friday Fiction: A Traditional Irish Love Story

Below is the beginning of a short story about a famous Irish love story, the story of Líadan and Cuirithir (pronounced phonetically in English Leeadawn and Coorihir). One of the...

Illustration by JB Yeats "The Stolen Child"

John Butler Yeats, father of the poet WB In researching the prologue to my Yeats-Gonne series, which is told from the point of view of the fathers of WB Yeats...