Marie McGrath
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Things that have saved me:
Animals
Music
Sense of Humor
Writing
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Back in the 1970s, I spent nearly a year researching what was, and is, known as the Celtic Revival in my home country, Ireland. It was a sort of renaissance of Irish culture, literature, arts and language that began around the mid-1800s . Those who, for centuries were proscribed from using their native tongue, Irish Gaelic, now embraced it and their history with the sort of pride that had waned among the Irish people during the starvation years of the recent The Potato Famine (1845 – 1852); when a million either starved or emigrated to foreign shores.
By Marie McGrath11 months ago in FYI
Hortense and the Library
Hortense Gunsenthorpe lived in the little blue house all her life. Her mother, Harmony and her father, Hawthorne J. lived there, too. The best thing Hortense liked to do was sit at the kitchen table and talk to them. They were a happy family and liked to do things together.
By Marie McGrath11 months ago in Fiction
Hortense and the Library
’ Hortense Gunsenthorpe lived in the little blue house all her life. Her mother, Harmony and her father, Hawthorne J. lived there, too. The best thing Hortense liked to do was sit at the kitchen table and talk to them. They were a happy family and liked to do things together.
By Marie McGrath11 months ago in Fiction
Christopher. Top Story - February 2025.
Christopher turned off the computer at his desk and began to get ready to leave work. He’d been employed by the insurance company for 12 years and the routine had become something he did nearly unconsciously. As he went through the revolving front door, the wind seemed to pick up just to inconvenience him. It had snowed and there were few footprints on the walk. Makes sense, he thought. Very few people would be leaving the office this early.
By Marie McGrath11 months ago in Fiction
Straw Man
Part Two of Three Fionn Rafferty lives on a small farm near Ballintee in Co. Sligo, Ireland. He loves all his animals and often spends time during the night visiting the cows and horses in the family’s barn. One particular night, an odd noise and tumbling straw bale led him to discover someone hiding in an empty horse stall.
By Marie McGrath11 months ago in Chapters
