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...
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Kate's Chat
- Jun 29, 2018
- 4 min
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...
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Kate's Chat
- May 22, 2018
- 3 min
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,...
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Kate's Chat
- May 2, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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Kate's Chat
- Mar 11, 2018
- 3 min
#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...
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Kate's Chat
- Feb 21, 2018
- 6 min
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...
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Kate's Chat
- Feb 15, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Kate's Chat
- Feb 12, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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Kate's Chat
- Oct 24, 2017
- 4 min
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....
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Kate's Chat
- Oct 24, 2017
- 3 min
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...
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Kate's Chat
- Oct 24, 2017
- 7 min
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...
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