“Look after your brother”, my father would say. Wasps moved in to a crack in a neighbours’ front wall one summer. We used to play dares...

My ancestors lived beside the Wild Atlantic Ocean in the South West of Ireland.Many of them still do. With a staple diet of mainly fish,...

My two grannies died when I was very young. I don't remember much about them other than the stories that I've been told and the photos...

Saturday mornings was Harp lesson time.  My eldest sister and I learnt the Irish Harp for many a teenager year. I might not have been the...

I grew up with the mindset that a job is for life. I was happy to follow my path through the education system and to then step in to my...

I step inside, seeking solace in the silence of this sacred space. I drop some coins into the metal box as payment to light a candle....

It was pension day in Dingle. The day when retired folk collected their pension from the bustling post office in town. I could feel...

​I loved the book The Secret Garden as a child.  A classic English novel written by Frances Hodgson Burnett whose main character is Mary....

I'm a Performer. It started from the moment I was born. From the moment I took my first breath in this world. As the third of 4 siblings,...

I failed four out of nine exams in my first year of University. I paid much more attention to the social side of University life; far...

I want to see the stars in The Bush again and listen to the songlines of the Aboriginal peoples. I wrote these words in my travel diary...

Yesterday I had the strong urge to go for a walk into the wild. So I followed that urge, hopping into the car and heading north to Queen...

It's my fathers' birthday today. He would be 85. Happy Birthday Dad! I don't know what my life would have been like if my dad were still...

My grandfather, Jim, had many phrases that he used to repeat on tap...with a glint in his eye and the corner of a smirk on his mouth, as...

There's something about the quality of the light; the crispness of sound and the smells of the woods at this time of year in the Northern...

I was standing in the fire. Her anger piercing through me as she absolutely disagreed with what I was teaching. The angry flames began to...

I wasn't as keen as the rest of the family. Just standing on a board and paddling? Sounded boooorrrrring to me! Oozing judgement, I...

Back in March, a training colleague of mine told me, during our conversation that I needed to: Get out more. - Training Colleague What...

As I walked along the path to the Pointe du Raz in Frances' magical most westerly point in Finisterre, I watched the vast ocean current...

I hurt my back the other day. Unloading the dishwasher, rather mundanely. Whatever way I twisted, in a nano-second, a pain shot up my...