I mentioned in my last post that I spent a number of years out of Ireland when I went back to college and studied for a Masters and then a PhD in Creative Writing. This involved spending time in a variety of rented (and borrowed) accommodation, usually surrounded by books and always by the sort
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Belinda McKeon, whose fine first novel Solace has just been published by Picador, has a fascinating piece on today’s Irish Times about the process of writing the novel, entirely Irish and Ireland-based, whilst living in Brooklyn. You can read it here: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2011/0804/1224301812213.html Reading her article, McKeon brought me back to the only time I’ve lived
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