In Saturdayâs Irish Times, we publish Dirty Linen: a personal history of Northern Ireland, a revised version of my contribution to The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices, edited by Paul McVeigh, to be published by Unbound in July.
Reviews are Diarmaid Ferriter on The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend Louise Kennedy on Real Estate by Deborah Levy; Claire Hennessy on the best new YA fiction; Sarah Moss on Snowflake by Louise Nealon; Paschal Donohoe on Together: 10 Choices for a Better Now Ece Temelkuran; Sarah Gilmartin on The Rules of Revelation by Lisa McInerney; Anna Carey on The Beauty of Impossible Things by Rachel Donohue; Paul Gillespie on State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union by Michael Keating; and Houman Barekast on Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell.
When I is replaced with we even illness becomes wellness , and that is certainly the case for Rachel Drury.
In 2014, while in Australia, the former engineer turned writer was diagnosed with Ulcerative colitis, a long-term condition that results in the inflammation of the bowel, and in her case led to numerous hospitalisations and drastic weight loss.
She has written about her experiences in coping with the condition, what it has taught her, and the support her fiancé Des provided her, in her newly-released book, Powered to Fall, Empowered to Rise: A Journey in Love, a Journey Together .
An identical twin, Rachel moved to Sligo with her family aged 16. The family moved from Dublin to her mother Catherine s native county and she and her sisters, twin Michelle, and older sister Claire completed their second level education at the Ursuline College.