Blog | Kate Kerrigan author

Walking the dead....

I was so busy with work last week that, for the first time since he died, I missed my brother’s anniversary. My sister and I usually mark...

Old friends are so special

Mary and I belting out 'Don't You Want me Baby' by The Human League - 80s classic - at my wedding in 1999. Thin and still smoking. Glory...

Summer holiday? Summer chaos more like!

I have spend the entire morning drawing up our Summer diary. ‘I’m just going to leave the Summer diary here,’ I said to my husband,...

Marching with the artists #repeal #rise #rejoice #voices

A text came through from the artist Alice Maher, inviting me to go to Limerick to march in the Artists Repeal the 8th procession, part...

#sharingtears #blessed

I was only back from my friend Siobhan’s funeral in Dublin when a big gang of relations landed on us. Siobhan died young and while her...

Falling in love with my mother

I often (but not too often) joke that if I ever left my husband it would not be for another man, but for my mother. I fell in love with...

Peek behind the scenes of a novel

For every novel I write - there is up a year of research. Developing the story often involves interviewing people who remember or lived...

My dream date

We recently discovered that my seven year old Tom has additional needs. Anyone who reads my column regularly will know about the antics...

How I fell back in love with 'the dress'

Author Kate Kerrigan talks about how she fell back in love with dresses. My falling out of love with dressing up was not an instant thing....

Chicken stew, a gold blouse and a book launch

‘The boys won’t eat stew.’ It was 6 o’clock and Niall had just come into the kitchen from his office out the back. He was babysitting...

Writing tips

You have to work at being a writer, but when you love what you do - that's its own reward. Part of this article was adapted from an...

KATE KERRIGAN