Category: Writing Heroes

Celebrating Irish Women Authors: Katharine Tynan Hickson

.Reading time 10 minutes.

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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My Writing Heroes: Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849)

.Reading time 10 minutes.

“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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