Maria C. McCarthy https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Invicted – a guest post by SM Jenkin Events Shop Learning to be Irish now published Waiting for the books Books Starting the year with coughs and sniffles Taking Learning to be Irish home, and Medway River Lit Festival 2025 Poems and Stories About A joyful occasion – launching Learning to be Irish Cultured Llama Publishing Noticing the beauty in ordinariness: There are Boats on the Orchard Learning to be Irish in the writing shed MailPoet Page MailPoet Page Shop 15 minutes of fame with Local Authority As Long as it Takes Learning to be Irish Waking John – a life of stories A woman’s place is in her shed Chronic Fatigue If a poet reads in a room… A spiritual experience amongst the dirty dishes Russian dolls – stories within stories, women within women Going back to Middle Park Fart-arsing about, book titles and Substack Inspired by Six Women Who Shook the World Unexplored Territory strange fruits A Tale of Two Memoirs Learning (to be) Irish Little Big Steps, taking the first step Pamphlets Learning to be Irish On noise and silence Embroidering the truth, fact and fiction in As Long as it Takes When truth is denied Sew it goes, embracing wonkiness Don’t mention Tattenham Corner A violin with a rose on the tailpiece The importance of rituals, candles and dogs The Fear All Aboard for Morningtown for the last of the aunties Talking to strangers and travelling fearlessly The Photo Challenge Do Less in 2020 Small steps to a bigger world Meeting the Doctor