The all Ireland Final on Sunday 3rd September, 1939, between Cork and Kilkenny was played on the day Britain declared war on Germany, during a terrific thunderstorm and was called the ‘thunder and lightening final’. The following is a line of dialogue from pg. 1 of Love Will Have Its Way on that same day as Violet’s Mother, Dolly, listens to De Valera’s speech on Radio Eireann, declaring Eire to be in a state of Emergency.

‘Thank God they have the all-Ireland Final on the wireless this afternoon. It must be a good omen.’

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I am a 49 year old working mother from Waterford, Ireland. I have been writing in my spare time for the last fourteen years. I have currently completed the second draft of my second historical fiction novel. Most recently, my poem ‘From a Register of Sick Calls - attended to by the Clergy in July and August, 1922 during the Siege of Waterford’ was accepted by Poetry as Commemoration for their Dublin City Centre Poetry Jukebox, which was installed in the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art on 1st November 2023. This poem was written during the Poetry as Commemoration workshops held in Waterford City Library in November, 2022. My poem, ‘Ballybricken Hill’, was published in Déise Voices: New Poems from County Waterford in 2019. I’ve also had two poems, ‘All Earth’ and ‘My Own Sakura’, published by Singapore Eco Journal, The Tiger Moth Review. Two short stories were shortlisted for the Atlantis Short Story Contest, “The Lone Wolf” in 2015 and “Spring Rain is a Different Entity” in 2017. The latter was also published in their inaugural anthology in 2018. My short story, “Ghosts” was longlisted for Wordsmiths, 2020. My short story, “Make Believe”, was published by The Galway Review in January 2021. I have had several articles on writing and writers published in The Irish Times, both online and in the Irish Times Magazine.

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