PUBLICATIONS
Books
Room for One More
Is it true? Did it really happen to you? Some of it did!
Room for One More depicts snapshots of the author's childhood in Killarney, her time in a boarding school in Co. Cork, her college years in Dublin and her subsequent travels.
The short stories that these snapshots inspire, range from an emigrant's Christmas in Australia in Waiting for Christmas, a drama in a nursing home in Returning Home and a sinister feud in an Argentine village in And Then Came the War.
This collection of memoirs and short stories offers a varied and enjoyable read, to those of us who sometimes wonder, "could that really happen?"
Sweaters and Small Stuff
When ordinary people live through extraordinary moments. Sweaters and Small Stuff is a wonderful collection of stories, depicting some of the most tender and sweet, as well as tragic and harrowing, instances in the lives of many different characters.
From the life-changing to the seemingly mundane, this thought-provoking anthology will take you on a journey that won't easily be forgotten. The two-part volume brings you a very different story for every day of the week, in the first section. From Sundays and Secrets, where a young girl's life is changed forever on a Kerry beach to Friday's Photographs, where a tale of abuse takes an unusual turn. In part two, Foreign TV Stations is a funny take on a stroke of luck, A Model Mother tugs at the heartstrings and 30-Minute-Meals gives real food for thought.
Sweaters and Small Stuff offers a varied and enjoyable read, for ordinary people looking for extraordinary moments.
Short Fiction, Memoir, Poetry
On a Knife Edge published in Circus-themed edition of WestWord (2024)
My Mother’s Sunday Lunch and Eating with my Mother in her Ovarian Cancer Kitchen published in Ruby Literary Press (Fall/Winter 2022)
I Polished All Our Shoes on Saturday Evenings was the winner of the People's Prize in Retreat West (now transferred to Westword) Monthly Microfiction (November 2022)
If I'm Lucky Enough to Grow Old was the winner of the People's Prize in Retreat West (now transferred to Westword) Monthly Microfiction (March 2022)
Forgetting published in 25 Miles From Here anthology by Pure Slush (2021)
A poem Lockdown. Day 368 published in the International Women's Club (IWC) Contact magazine in Amsterdam (March 2021)
A memoir piece My Special Valentine's published in the International Women's Club (IWC) Contact magazine in Amsterdam (February 2021)
Sr Teresita and David Cassidy in my Bedroom, My Love for Cameras Started in our Family Chemist Shop , My Mum's Smoking Ban and Bellies and Bingo Wings published in the Irish Times in their Family Fortunes section (various dates from 2015-2019)
A story and a poem Hide and Seek and Diagnosis published in Selfies and Portraits by South Dublin County Council Library Services (2016)
A Primary Christmas published in InTouch magazine, Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) (December 2013)
The Liar published in A Pint and A Haircut: True Irish Stories by Londubh Books (2010)
Educational Writing
A Discovery - Why Children Breaking the Rules in Writing Really Works available on the Emu Ink website (April 2021)
Creating Historical Artefacts for Future Primary Education available on the Emu Ink website (May 2021)
Ballyfermot Celebrating 70, a poem written for Ballyfermot celebrating its 70th anniversary, published in Celebrating 50 Years in St Louise's by St Louise de Marillac NS (2018)
Loads of Ice Cubes published in Celebrating 50 Years in St Louise's by St Louise de Marillac NS (2018). An excerpt of this in relation to school attendance published in Leadership+, the magazine of the Irish Primary Principals Network (IPPN) (2018).
Get into Action published in ICTs in the Primary School: Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century by Robbie O' Leary and John O'Mahony and published by Dublin West Education Centre (DWEC, 2010). A copy of the book was provided by the Department of Education and Science (DES) to every primary school in the country in March 2011.