about me

18/01/13: I've now taken down 'The Light and the Dark' as I've finished the first draft and am now rewriting it. Thank you to everyone who gave me some excellent feedback on it which I will be using in the rewrite.

I'd particularly like to thank JulietAnn who has read the entire manuscript and provided excellent advice. To Steve Hawgood, Mooderino, Marita Hansen, John Bayliss, pickarooney and keithyd who have all raised issues and provided excellent criticisms and insights for a rewrite.

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I am from Ireland. I'm 22. I read a BA in Classics in Dublin, and then an M.Litt in Classics at Edinburgh. I'm now a doctoral student back in Dublin and my thesis is concerned with the concept of suffering in Sophocles' plays, how it affects perceptions of life and how it influenced Nietzsche's philosophy and Yeats' poetry.

I've always enjoyed literature and the arts - I'm a regular theatre-goer at the Abbey Theatre, very much involved with the RIA and the IGS. I meet a lot of interesting people in the arts scene here in Dublin, not least of them Seamus Heaney.

And Dublin will always be where my heart is, and so much of it and how I feel about it comes into what I write.

I have a proficiency in 7 languages: Ancient Greek, Latin, French, German, Irish and Scotch Gaelige. I'm still keen to learn more, perhaps Arabic next - when I have time.

favourite books

All of Sophocles
L'Œuvre - Émile Zola
Germinal - Émile Zola
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
W.B. Yeats
Le Mythe de Sisyphe - Albert Camus
La Nausée - Jean-Paul Sartre
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
De Rerum Natura - Lucretius
The Iliad - Homer
Le Rouge et le Noir - Stendhal
l'Etranger - Albert Camus
Aristophanes
Rabindranath Tagore

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