Why is everyone writing books?
Okay, so apart from the initial difficulties in starting a novel, getting lost in the middle of the plot, then struggling to find a...
The Street Lords of Punctuation
#photo #humour #writing #editing #comedy
The paramilitaries
There is a scene in Monty python’s Life of Brian in which Brian is selling snacks to members of People’s Front of Judea. He mistakes them...
The Bective
I lived in Bridge Street for many years, and always felt that the road was missing a proper name. Every other main street in Sligo was...
Sligo in the 1980's
The Bective Hotel, as well as Sligo, were places full of character and full of life in the 1980s. The lifestyle and many of the...
Lord Louis & Mullaghmore
About midday on the 27th August 1979, an explosion ripped across the bay at Mullaghmore, North Sligo. I didn't hear it, but I did hear...
To Hell or Connaught
The English civil war which established Oliver Cromwell in power as England’ dictator (or protector as he liked to call it) was actually...
About the book, To Hell or Sligo: concepts
There is a thin line between truth and fiction, and you wont find it here in this tall story told about a ripping yarn in which fact and...
