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 the day with a trip...

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 be the days! ‘Will y...

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, placing the colour coded ...

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 of the opening of Lim...

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 funeral was as glamoro...

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 my mother again in my...

For every novel I write - there is up a year of research. Developing the story often involves interviewing people who remember or lived through eras of 20th ...

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

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. There was no in...

‘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 tonight while I launc...

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 interview with Kate o...