This is FionaO’s Newsletter, about last year’s courses Northern Soul (not the groove thing) and Keep Her Lit. Writing the Troubles facilitated by Fiona O'Rourke
What people are saying...
On a par with the module I took on the Troubles in Trinity College Dublin as part of my BA in Irish Studies. Anne McDonald, coach, poet, writer & spoken word artist
Rosaline Callaghan, an emerging writer and poet from Derry / Donegal talks about her experience of the course in her blog and how it gave her permission to write.
I want to say thank you for Northern Soul and to let you know it has had a significant impact on my writing. Read more about Rosemary's experience in Permission to Write
Link to a memoir by Mary Minihan written during Northern Soul Remembering Omagh by Mary Minihan in The Irish Times
Northern Soul with Irish Writers Centre Summer 2021. A course that explores how there is more than one experience of the Troubles. Valerie Bistany, Director at Irish Writers Centre attended week 6 for the Northern Soul Showcase. This writing community shared their poetry, short stories, novels & memoir written from exercises given on the course.
Thanks to Kildare Libraries, Irish Writers Centre and Creative Ireland for including the Northern Soul course on the Connections Through Literature programme.
Want to Keep Her Lit?
A follow-up group Keep Her Lit met in November/December.
If you are interested in writing about the North of Ireland, please get in touch.
email fionamkorourke@gmail.com