Here’s a collection of photographs I took on a walk around Killarney, in Co Kerry, Ireland.
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Why I studied creative writing at university
Nearly seven years ago, and I really can’t believe it was that long, I began my degree at NUI Galway in Ireland. I chose Galway for one reason only: I could study creative writing there. As someone who had been interested in words, books and literature ever since I could remember, it seemed a natural choice.
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National Library launches Easter Rising photo exhibition
The National Library of Ireland has launched an exhibition of their collection of photographs documenting the events and locations of the Easter Rising in 1916.
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Celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Globe in London is going all out this year in honour of the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death. Film adaptation screenings along the South Bank, a world tour of Hamlet, and a season by a new artistic director: it’s certainly going to be a year to remember.
10 countries I want to visit in my lifetime
This is a round-up of 10 places I think are incredible and would love to see during my lifetime.
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Five best books of 2015
These are my pick of the five best books of the year.
Harry Potter play casts Noma Dumezweni as Hermione
The new play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opens in London’s West End this summer, has cast actress Noma Dumezweni as Hermione Granger, alongside Jamie Parker as Harry Potter and Paul Thornley as Ron Weasley.
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Top 10 Jane Austen Quotes
To mark the 240th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, here are my top 10 favourite quotes from her books and personal correspondence.
Gallery: Feeling festive in London
Visiting Haworth, the home of the Brontës
Haworth is a rural village on a steep hill, surrounded by fields of heather and a bitter breeze. The parsonage, where the Brontë sisters grew up and lived, is easily the biggest building there. It sits by tall trees and crooked gravestones, and is filled with remnants of the family’s lives; it does feel like they’ve just popped out for a walk on the moor. Continue reading “Visiting Haworth, the home of the Brontës”
Quote of the Week: Kazuo Ishiguro
Memory, I realise, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
Evanna Lynch: ‘Harry Potter has only opened doors for me’
With nearly a million followers on Twitter and on first-name terms with one of the most iconic authors in the world, Evanna Lynch from Co Louth has made a name for herself as one of Ireland’s great acting exports.
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Quote of the Week: Sebastian Faulks
No child or future generation will ever know what this was like. They will never understand.
Quote of the Week: Edgar Allan Poe
In one sense, and in great measure, to be peculiar is to be original, and than the true originality there is no higher literary virtue.
Q&A with Puffin editor Claire Hennessy
I interviewed the super editor/writer/all-around book aficionado Claire Hennessy about her job at one of Ireland’s major publishing houses, what she looks for in YA submissions and her best advice for aspiring authors.
Quote of the Week: Katherine Mansfield
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives? One is so very small.
But that is the satisfaction of writing: one can impersonate so many people.
Quote of the Week: Hilary Mantel
I always write in terms of scenes, and for a big scene in one of the Cromwell novels, I will prepare for several days by going through all my notes and all my sources before diving into the writing.
Quote of the Week: Oscar Wilde
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Quote of the Week: Peter Jackson
I just get excited about stories. I’ve always felt that I make movies for myself. I’m not somebody that has a great deal of interest in what the world wants to see. I have to get excited about a project myself and to the point that it becomes a film that I desperately want to see.
So therefore I start the process of trying to make it so I can see it. It sounds a bit simplistic, but that’s the heart of it. That’s the truth.
– Peter Jackson
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore.
Original article: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/q-a-peter-jackson-master-of-middle-earth-20130219#ixzz3ZcVahrZh
Quote of the Week: Elizabeth Gilbert
Writing is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
