People Helping Other People #WATWB
No story is too big or small, as long as it Goes Beyond religion and politics, into the core of humanity. Continue reading People Helping Other People #WATWB
Tag: Adoption
Something to Warm Your Heart on a cold December Day
I didn’t set out to do this at first, but the notion of sharing one post each day from the many that arrive in my in-box seems to have grown on me. Some might say it’s a lazy way of blogging, but when there’s material to delight like this story from Sally Cronin’s collection “What’s in a Name” I can’t help feeling I’m providing a useful service. via Guest Author #SallyCronin ~ Grace, a Christmas Story from What’s in a Name? Continue reading Something to Warm Your Heart on a cold December Day
Writing About Adoption
An Affair With my Mother by Caitriona Palmer (Memoir) A Second Life by Dermot Bolger (Fiction) I wanted to read these books when the opportunity came, in order to see if my treatment of the subject in Honest Hearts and Transgression was authentic. Both books deal with adoption as experienced in Ireland in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. This was a period during which any young Irish woman who conceived out of wedlock was regarded as a pariah. Her child was taken from her and provided with a good, usually middle class, home. The mother would be ostracised by her … Continue reading Writing About Adoption
Adoption: a Recurring Theme
I began writing my first novel in the summer of 2010. I had been living in Ireland for a little under 4 years and had been reading about the history of migration of Irish people, whether the consequence of famine, punishment by ‘transportation’ to the antipodes, or simply the search for a better life. One of several books that I read dealing with the subject was a slim volume telling the true story of a young man who, at the age of 19 in 1895, traveled from his family home in the Irish Midlands to North America. After a spell … Continue reading Adoption: a Recurring Theme
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