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 [...]
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 [...]
Santa and his sleigh When I was a little girl, the weeks leading up to Christmas were magical. The FDH Stores, the biggest shop in our one-street town always had a wonderful display of toys in [...]
Mam’s Christmas Cake My Mam trained as a Domestic Science Teacher, but shelved her teaching career when she married my Dad, a farmer. However, she didn’t hang up her apron on [...]
The doll’s house I am five—Santa has been. I am so excited. I didn’t ask for this, I didn’t know I wanted it. Now I want It. It’s a beautiful big doll’s house. It has an [...]
Ham straws for Christmas These days I love to cook, but it wasn’t always so. Coming as I did towards the end of the family I managed to avoid any cooking lessons at home as there were two older [...]
We are delighted to announce that Stories from the Sheds will be launched on Friday, September 14th, at 2pm in Wexford Town Library, by the Mayor of Wexford, Mr. Tony Dempsey.
When Silvija Grigulis Jones entered her eighties, she started writing stories about her early life; she wrote them in English, the language of her children and grandchildren. Through a [...]
These days I love to cook, but it wasn’t always so. Coming as I did towards the end of the family I managed to avoid any cooking lessons at home as there were two older sisters to cope and my [...]