Liam Ireland
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I Am...whatever you make of me.
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A Story Stranger Than Fiction
As I sit here mulling over the past I am minded of the fact that no matter how far fetched might appear my pieces of fiction, the harsh reality of what I have passed in terms of experiences and people I have had to deal with in real life beggars belief.
By Liam Ireland5 years ago in Horror
The Sun Also Rises
A great many moons ago, far more than I care to remember, I was faced with making a choice of going to university to study the breeding habits of the South American hermit crab or classical literature. I chose the latter. These Corona crisis lockdown days I’m not so sure I made the right choice.
By Liam Ireland5 years ago in Earth
How To Surf Your Way Back To Life
Way back in 2005, after spending the entire summer walking the length and breadth of every beach within fifty miles as a kind of post divorce therapy, just staring at the sand from one beach to the next, I fell upon, yes actually fell upon, one of the best divorce therapies there is. Surfing on a kayak.
By Liam Ireland5 years ago in Motivation
A Musical Journey Into The Past
The start of any new project marks the start of a new life. And the start of the album 'Lost and Found' was, recorded between 2015 and 2018 in the United Kingdom, was certainly a purging experience. It's a semi- biographical collection of songs which spans my early years as a child right up to the present day.
By Liam Ireland5 years ago in Beat
How To Win Friends And Influence People
Life, business, failure, success, it is all a story, the story of who and what we are and how we ought to be. The lesson part comes at the end, so don't rush off too hastily. First, a little vignette to illustrate the point of how, and how not, to be in business and in life. Now meet my dearly beloved friend, the late Matthew, who knew the rules of the game, and a certain young lady of his acquaintance, who quite clearly didn't.
By Liam Ireland5 years ago in Humans
My Flight From The Corona Virus
As I joyfully cycle down some nondescript rural country lanes in the Chiba Prefecture, two hours east of Tokyo, I look for all the world like I haven't a care in the world. Truth be told, I have really got much at all to worry about. And yet.....
By Liam Ireland5 years ago in Longevity
Be Happy And Shine
Yesterday I published a story of an amazing singer who calls herself Nightbirde (real name Jane Marczewski). Later on I decided to dig in a little deeper. I was curious to know how somebody who is just thirty years of age, who has had cancer three times and been given just a two percent chance of survival, who still has cancer in three parts of her fragile body and to top it all was abandoned by her husband in the midst of her worst hours, what on earth has this woman got that has enabled her to reign victorious on America's Got Talent?
By Liam Ireland5 years ago in Beat
All Writers Are Out Of Their Tiny Little Minds
My first ever university seminar about Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, our tutor Vic Callaghan asked his first question; what is schizophrenia ?Needless to say we all looked somewhat confused. Nobody dared venture an answer.
By Liam Ireland5 years ago in Geeks
