Many thanks to the lovely Transition Year students at Coláiste Cois Lifé in Dublin West who kindly invited me to their school for a chat. I can’t tell you how happy I was when I found out that teenagers in Dublin West were reading Wild Quiet (and hopefully enjoying it!!). I was living in this part of the city when I wrote the collection, so it’s weirdly as if the book has found its way back home (now that sounds like a magical realist plot…)

Thanks to Rang Abhoca, Rang Bandon, Rang Beirú, Rang Coimín and Rang Eana, and to your fantastic teacher Ms Nig Uidhir for organising the visit. I hope to talk to you again sometime. In the meantime, keep writing those short stories and remember, writing ‘rules’ are made to be broken!

Go raibh míle maith agat!

By the way thanks also for the lovely card. I love how you interpreted the symbolism of each of the short stories in Wild Quiet.