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My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise.

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My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find a job in insurance.

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The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!

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The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists.

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I'd kill to be a poet.

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I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.

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I committed a cardinal sin as a kid. I never spoke, and my mother thought there was something seriously wrong with me. A silent child is regarded as a problem in Ireland, and I just read all the time.

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I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.

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I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.

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I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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