I have a new essay ‘Cailín Deas, Cailín Dána’ published in Trasna today. The essay is about many things, including Switzerland, sibling loss, autism, giving up alcohol, Maria Edgeworth, and photographs…it’s a braided/hybrid piece, a mixumgatherum. You can read the essay here. Hope you enjoy it!
Tag Archives: essays
Sunday Miscellany – Nora as Goose
My radio essay about Nora Barnacle, James Joyce, and geese, on today’s Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, is now on the RTÉ website. My bit starts around 11:11 – listen at this link.
PARIS REVIEW ESSAY
My Paris Review essay about Nora Barnacle and James Joyce’s erotic letters is now published. This was fun to write 😉 You can read it here.
THE MARYS – ESSAY AT *CRAFT*
I have a new essay today at Craft called ‘The Marys’. It’s about my lifelong love of Holy Mary statues, their meaning to me, Ulysses, Ireland in 1985, and the legacy of Catholicism. Read it here.
NORA BARNACLE – essay
Nuala has an essay about Nora Barnacle and James Joyce’s first meeting on the 10th June 1904, and the days that followed, at RTÉ Culture today. Read it here.
Perimenopause essay
Nuala has a new essay about perimenopause (and hope!) in the new non-fiction journal from Bay Path University, Multiplicity Magazine. In ‘The Hope Cure – Negotiations with the Peri-fog’, she touches on everything from ee cummings to ‘The Shawshank Redemption’. You can read the essay here.
INTL WOMEN’S DAY EVENT 2020
UPCOMING EVENTS 2020
Nuala will take part in the Women of Yore Afternoon Tea in Limerick on 2nd February at One Pery Square. Music, literature, costume and cakes! Also appearing: Niamh Boyce, Rose Servitova, Melissa Shiels and more.
Nuala will read a new essay at an International Women’s Day event in Carrick-on-Shannon on the 8th March at 2.30pm. Dock Arts Centre.
Nuala will be taking part in a Historical Fiction event at Hodges Figgis, Dublin, on the 4th April. This is a free event. More details here.
Nuala is teaching a pre-festival Historical Flash Fiction workshop at Flash Fiction Festival UK on Friday 19th June. Book here.
She will also, as Editor of Splonk, take part in a panel at Flash Fiction Festival, on editing a flash journal, with Meg Pokrass.