Category Archives: Writing

The Flowering

Posted on May 14, 2021 by Lia Mills

Look! It’s a Woman Writer!: Irish Literary Feminisms 1970-2020, edited by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and published by Arlen House is an anthology of essays by 21 Irish women writers who were born in the 1950s. Ní Dhuibhne gave contributors (full … Continue reading →

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New Theatre New Writing Development Week

Posted on May 11, 2021 by Lia Mills

The New Theatre are running their New Writing Development Week again. The event, a series of performed readings on the New Theatre stage, will take place in November or December 2021, actual dates tbc. This opportunity is open to writers … Continue reading →

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Nuala O’Connor & Sarah Maria Griffin at the LexIcon (October 23rd)

Posted on November 3, 2018 by Lia Mills

This blog is disgracefully late, but I still want to record elements of a most enjoyable interview/conversation that took place in the Dun Laoghaire LexIcon a fortnight ago between Nuala O’Connor (Nuala Ní Chonchúir) and Sarah Maria Griffin (SMG), current … Continue reading →

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Guerrillas in the Mist

Posted on June 25, 2017 by Lia Mills

The recent Farmleigh House based project Pieces of Mind was inspired by Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris.  Following a conversation about this, fabulous Belfast poet Maria McManus sent me a link to her own exciting work … Continue reading →

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Sally Rooney at ILFD 2017 (With Rick O’Shea  in Belvedere House)

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Lia Mills

Sally Rooney is a phenomenon. She’s very young (26) but we can’t hold that against her. She has talent, energy, a strong sense of the world her generation inhabit and a direct way of talking (and writing) that is instantly … Continue reading →

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PIECES OF MIND at Farmleigh House

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Lia Mills

This time last year, as writer-in-residence at Farmleigh (thanks to the Office of Public Works) I worked on a project called Pieces of Mind. The idea came from Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris. In the … Continue reading →

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Who owns your work? (Thought for the Day)

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Lia Mills

Here’s something I’ve wondered about in an idle sort of way, suddenly made real; it’s seriously scary stuff: Who controls our online content and where/how it’s stored? Look what happened to Dennis Cooper, who had 14 years’ worth of blogs and … Continue reading →

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HELPFUL BOOKS FOR WRITERS

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Lia Mills

People always want to know what writers have influenced you. Who’s your favourite author? they ask. What’s your favourite novel? I find these questions impossible to answer, for reasons that might well bear discussion some other time. Last week, at … Continue reading →

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PIECES OF MIND (Two Days in May 2016 at Farmleigh House): AN INVITATION

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Lia Mills

What’s on your mind, as we move on from the centenary month of April? May is my last month as writer-in-residence at Farmleigh.  I’m asking people to come out to the Boathouse café and give me a piece of their … Continue reading →

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Being Misunderstood (Guest Post by Daniel Seery)

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Lia Mills

This is a new feature to this blog. I know, I know, everyone else has been doing it forever – but I’m a slow learner. Now and then I’ll invite other writers to use this space  for short essays.  My first guest is … Continue reading →

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