On Friday 12th May, we had the great pleasure of presenting our SenGuide project to people from Ballinrobe, County Mayo. Two groups from the town have taken part in this Erasmus+ project, which [...]
Bitumen & Pitch is a poetry collection and memoir of a woman relearning who she is. Three weeks before her mother’s death with dementia, Eithne de Lacy, then forty-three years of age, [...]
In No Admittance Except on Business, Christine O’Flynn takes us to County Cork, to her beloved Monard Mills, home to her family for many generations. The Mills and their surroundings are both the [...]
The bright days of Spring are with us (we hope) and the lazy days of Summer beckon (we certainly hope). Has there ever been a better time to grab a pen, a notebook, and to write down all the [...]
The short days of an interminable January are now behind us, as are any resolutions we might have taken on the first day of the year. So you didn’t walk 10,000 steps every day, [...]
My grandchildren have discovered letter writing, and the joys of waiting for the postman. They look out for him, wondering if there is a letter for them, and I remember the excitement at [...]
The pillowcase hangs on the doorknob. They are due in from work and each of them will put their clothes in the pillowcase, have a shower and put their clothes on a hot wash carefully touching [...]
We were delighted last week to read a full page in The Herald about our Silver Thread writer Gretta Gray, whose stories feature in Stories from Ordinary Lives. She is also featured in our [...]
