My fiction debut, The Amusements, is a novel of interconnected stories set in the seaside town of Tramore – a place I know well because my family are from Waterford. With the exception of William Trevor’s short story Honeymoon in Tramore, it’s a town that’s been overlooked by Irish writers. Yet to my mind, Tramore is bursting at the seams with stories, having had so many incarnations: originally a spa retreat for moneyed and rheumatic Victorians, it became a fashionable dancehall spot in …
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About ten years ago I was touring my stand-up comedy show in England. Doing my due diligenceon the town I was performing in one night, I stumbled upon a chilling, …
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