Ben Ryan will be launching his first book, The Tay is Wet, in The Boyne Valley Hotel in Drogheda on St. Patrick’s Day the 17th March at 6.30 PM.
The Tay is Wet has been getting quite a lot of publicity recently and articles have appeared in the Meath Chronicle, Meath Weekender and Drogheda Leader.
Ben will also be on LMFM on Friday 12th March at 9.30 talking about his wonderful book.
The Tay is Wet is available in many bookshops including the following:
DULEEK: Deismirean, Main Street, Duleek, Co Meath.
DROGHEDA: Drogheda on the Boyne Tourism, Millmount and Tourist Office, Mayoralty Street, Drogheda, Co Louth.
SLANE: Connolly & Moore, 3 Newgrange Mall, Slane, Co Meath.
NAVAN: Hartens Newsagents (2 shops), Navan Shopping Centre, Co Meath.
TARA: Michael Maguire, Hill of Tara, Co Meath.
TRIM: Trim Visiter Centre, Castle Street, Trim, Co Meath.
RATOATH: Ratoath Bookshop
SKERRIES: The Skerries Bookshop, 77 Strand Street, Skerries, Co Dublin.
One of our authors, Brittany Windvogel appeared on The Gerry Ryan radio show on RTE 2FM on the morning of the 3rd of March. Brittany was on the show to talk about her wonderful book, When I Grow Up, I Wanna Be – A Pop Star, A Sports Star or An Entrepreneur.
Well done Brittany and good luck with your book.
We are very pleased to announce the release of A State of Emergency, the latest publication from author, journalist and public speaker, Mary Kenny.
Mary all-women play revises a personal dilemma in neutral Ireland, seen in retrospect, and drawing on family memory and social research. And almost forty years after Mary Kenny pioneered the famous “condom train” between Belfast and Dublin, a rather more complex picture of birth control emerges in this partly autobiographical tale…..
About Mary Kenny
Mary Kenny has been a journalist for over four decades, working in London and Dublin. She has contributed to more than 25 newspapers and journals, including the Sunday and Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Guardian, Times, Irish Independent, Irish Times, Catholic Herald, The Spectator, Times Literary Supplement and The Tablet.
In the 1990s she developed an interest in social and biographical history, and published an acclaimed study of Irish values in the 20th century, Goodbye to Catholic Ireland. She subsequently published a biography of William Joyce, Germany Calling, which was made into a television documentary for the History Channel, and her play about Winston Churchill and Michael Collins, Allegiance, was performed to full houses in Edinburgh in 2006 with Mel Smith and Michael Fassbender. Her book on Ireland’s relationship with the monarchy Crown and Shamrock: Love and Hate between Ireland and the British Monarchy is published in August 2009. She has also done a short book about heroin addiction: Death by Heroin, Recovery by Hope. She is married to the writer Richard West and both their sons are writers and journalists. She lives “between England and Ireland”, in Kent and Dublin.
Original Writing are pleased to announce the launch of The Complete Guide to Ireland’s Top Ten Hits 1954 – 1979 by Eddie Kelly
The Complete Guide to Ireland’s Best Sellers and Top Ten Hits of the years 1954 to 1979 celebrates the music of the period, its stars – Guy Mitchell, Alma Cogan, Elvis Presley, Joe Dolan, Cliff Richard, Dickie Rock, The Beatles, Slade, Elton John – and its songs – ‘Singing The Blues’, ‘I Can’t Tell A Waltz From A Tango’, ‘It’s Now Or Never’, ‘Make Me An Island’, ‘We Don’t Talk Anymore’, ‘The Candy Store’, ‘She Loves You’, ‘Cum On Feel The Noize’, ‘Candle In The Wind’.
Two separate listings – alphabetically by artist and song title – give highest chart positions, weeks on chart, record label and catalogue numbers, and also contains biographical details of all chart artists, whilst a third section provides a fascinating selection of chart facts and feats.
An essential reference book for all lovers of the period 1954 – 1979. The Complete Guide is illustrated with many rare picture sleeves – a reminder of classic hit records from an exciting period in popular music.
About the Author
Eddie Kelly, founder of the Friends of Buddy Holly Society, has written for several magazines including Not Fade Away, At The Hop, the Irish Entertainer and New Kommotion. He has compiled and written sleeve notes for many albums for several leading British record companies including Sequel, Castle, Prism Leisure and Pulse. During his time as a presenter with Shannonside Northern Sound Radio he interviewed many of the all time great international and Irish artists – including Frankie Laine, Dame Vera Lynn, Brendan Bowyer, Eileen Reid, Lita Roza, and Pat Boone – on his programmes Sounds Nice and The Showband Show.
“Buses, Trains and Gaelic Games” will be launched in Dom’s Pier Bar, Donegal Town, on Saturday 30th January at 8.00PM.
It will be launched by Four Masters legend, Joyce McMullen. This work is a history of Gaelic games in Irish transport from 1885 to the present day. The author, Clogher man, John Cassidy, traces the path of Gaelic football, hurling, handball and camogie teams from the days of Charles Bianconi (the father of public transport in Ireland) to the twenty-first century.
The book includes more than one hundred photographs including a historic picture of former Donegal player the late Felix Gallagher welcoming the Sam Maguire Cup to Dublin Bus garage in Phibsborough in 1992.
The author may be contacted at; johncassidy92@yahoo.com
Original Writing is very pleased to announce the launch of The Girl in the Wardrobe by Jennifer Farrell.
Jennifer’s childhood memoir won the Inaugural Memoir prize at Listowel Writers’ Week in 2007. The previous year, she won two Hennessy awards for her short story Beached. She is currently working on a short story collection and a novel. She studied at NUI Maynooth as a mature student in the nineties where she got her degree in history and sociology. She received a Master’s degree in 1995. She was born in Foley Street in the north inner city of Dublin, which was part of the notorious red light district called Monto. She now lives in Chapelizod with her family.
