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This blog post is dedicated to Marcella & Keith Flanagan, Katharine’s relatives and my life-long friends *** It was a song I learnt in school and one, I’m sure, most of you know. All in the April Evening has a beautiful melody and the words touched something in my childish heart, something most of the…
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This evening in the Library we have Maggie Cammiss, who has dropped in to say hello and to share some insights into her life as an author. You are very welcome, Maggie, please introduce yourself: It’s taken a while but I think I’ve arrived. This summer I put ‘novelist’ in the ‘profession’ column of my…
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I have a special guest in the Library today, fellow Dubliner, Patricia Hopper Patteson, who has dropped in to say hello and to share some insights into her life as an author. You are very welcome, Patricia, please introduce yourself: Hello, I’m Patricia Hopper Patteson. I’m a native of Dublin, Ireland, now living in West…
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This evening in the Library we have Francis H Powell, who has dropped in to say hello and to share some insights into his life as an author. You are very welcome, Francis, please introduce yourself: Born in a commuter belt city called Reading, (England) like many a middle or upper class child of such times,…
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“An elderly man stands utterly bewildered. Before him, his business and home are smouldering, black smoke billows from the skeletal remains and an acrid smell pervades the April air. Beside him, his wife and daughters stand, staring in horror. They have lost everything. All that remains of their home is a gable wall with fireplaces…
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Today in the Library we have PJ Connolly, who has dropped in to say hello and to share some insights into his life as an author. You are very welcome PJ, please introduce yourself: A child of the forties I was born before the outbreak of the Second World War and one of my earliest…
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Today in the Library we have Eric McFarlane who has dropped in to say hello and to share some insights into his life as an author. You are very welcome, Eric, please introduce yourself: Hello Pam and thanks for the opportunity to take part in your interview series. I trained as a chemist and worked…
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Today in the Library we have Jessica Norrie, who has dropped in to say hello and to share some insights into her life as an author. You are very welcome, Jessica, please introduce yourself: I studied French at Sussex University and then trained as a teacher and translator. I still do a bit of both, though…
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“Thady begins his memoirs of the Rackrent Family by dating MONDAY MORNING, because no great undertaking can be auspiciously commenced in Ireland on any morning but MONDAY MORNING. ‘Oh, please God we live till Monday morning, we’ll set the slater to mend the roof of the house. On Monday morning we’ll fall to, and cut…
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Today in the Library we have Wendy Lou Jones , who has dropped in to say hello and to share some insights into her life as an author. You are very welcome, Wendy Lou, please introduce yourself: I was brought up on the south coast of England, trained to be a doctor in Birmingham and…
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