KATE KERRIGAN

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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....

‘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...

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...