My top 10

So here is the current version of my ever changing top ten favourite books. Number one has been pretty consistent for the past few years but the others are ever changing and in no particular order (click on the links to buy them on amazon) 1. Use of Weapons – Iain M. Banks – his […]

Undergraduate Research Conference

I’m giving a brief talk/presentation at the first (soon to be annual) Dublin Undergraduate Research Conference next week. It’s organised by the DRHEA. Details of the talks and presentations on the day are available here, technically it’s too late to register but as they’re trying to promote it I reckon people can still come, application details available […]

1st Person Vs. 3rd Person

So the battle of perspectives has begun. I spent most of the summer obsessing over my Work-in-Progress (a novel): What will my main character be like, What order will things happen in, researching life in Ireland in th 1850’s, deciding that was too boring, changing it to Ireland in the 1950s… Stuff like that plus […]

Holocaust Narratives

 So without consciously intending to, I’ve read  several books about the holocaust recently. I read Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel, The Book Thief  by Markus Zusak and MAUS by Art Spiegelmann. All turned out to be great books and all turned out to be about the holocaust but they told their stories in very different ways. […]

Survival without internet

So I’ve moved back to college and due to an ongoing battle with a certain internet provider, who shall remain nameless for the sake of my sanity, I have not had internet access in weeks. So apologies for not putting up any posts (not that anyone reads this but it’s nice to be nice), and luckily […]