I was born in Monaghan and grew up in a bewildering land of many-sided political opinion. On the one hand, the ‘North’ lay just seven miles away, but on the other I was rooted in the Irish Republic, the putative ‘South’ of many writers’ dreams. An ability to look both in two directions at...
Marion was born into the heart of Sliabh Luachra, County Kerry. The visiting customs and traditions of her family and neighbours stimulated Marion’s curiosity for the written and spoken word. The memory of these rituals in the Parlours of her youth was reason enough to re-create a similar atmosphere some twenty years later in...