06 Dec
The Blog is Dead. Long Live the Blog!

Dear readers of Write in Berlin/In All The Write Places. It might not have escaped you during the last year that it has become very quiet on this site lately. If it HAS escaped you, that only confirms my point. Which is – that there is none so much anymore to this blog in this [...]
16 Aug
Irish Mysteries: The Art of Banter

Although Irish at heart since the delicate age of 16, and being a formal resident of the island (more or less) since 2004, there are these parts of the Irish way of life that I feel I can only watch from the sidelines and enjoy but never truly enter. The art of banter is one [...]
05 Aug
The Hard Sell

There’s some trivia about the author of WIE DU MIR for you guys: Which of the following personality traits did I completely throw overboard since Ellen Dunne entered the glittering stage of literary obscurity? a) discreetness b) shame c) modesty Hmm, a thoughie, eh? That’s because all three of them are spot on. Truth is [...]
06 Apr
Bad Friday

In Ireland, the Friday before Easter (interestingly named Good Friday), sees the country getting close to a state of national mourning. That is when the Irish, in an attempt to inflict a bit of the suffering that Jesus went through for them sinners, the Irish government flogs their herd with an almost biblical punishment – [...]
29 Mar
Cruel Irish Summer

Spray-tan-orange heels in flip-flops, packs of topless men on Dublin streets, kids in swim-suites who throw themselves into the balmy 10 degrees of the Irish Sea? Can only mean one thing: March has arrived in Ireland. Early spring usually is the “time of hope”, as hubby likes to call it – those blessed couple of [...]
11 Mar
Proud to Buy Irish

If you are not into the whining self-pity of a writer, feel free to skip this paragraph. After me  banging that drum of Ireland being an endless well of quirky stories and weird anecdotes, I would not blame you, dear readers, if you felt let down by now. So far, exactly ZERO stories about Leprechauns [...]
19 Jan
10 Weeks Published. And so?

Greetings, readers! Don’t worry, in spite of the circling rumors I have not yet left for the Caymans, managing my overwhelming stream of income from my bestselling book WIE DU MIR, which was published last November. Although I came quite close to that scenario, in some regards. My publisher and I have actually managed to [...]