Bridget Walsh
Daughters in Exile - Emigration and Transportation. (2 min read) #irishhistoricalnovels
I'm editing the second historical novel in a trilogy about the Irish Famine years. Annie Power and Jane Keating both left Ireland in the...
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Bridget Walsh
On titles: Exile - 1847, Home - 1848.
Just reading an excellent article about Antony Gormley. ‘I’m inviting people to explore the conditions of their own living.’ (Guardian...
Bridget Walsh
Developing characters: Jane Keating
Jane, will live a long life. Born in Galway in 1830, she will be almost eighty-six years old on the 24th April 1916, and she will witness...
Bridget Walsh
As an Indie author, it’s now time I started to broaden the reach of my novels.
#HistoricalFiction So, yesterday, I signed up with #Ingramspark. The self-publishing arm is similar to KDP, but Ingramspark are also...
Bridget Walsh
Where do you get your characters' names from? (three minute read)
My daughter, Nancy, asked me why I had chosen the name, Jane, for one of the two protagonists in my just published novel, “Daughters of...
Bridget Walsh
While writing: Do you get in a knot with your chronology?
13th April 2022. Two minute read. .My problem with writing the final chapters, and scenes, was to get both women, one dead and one alive,...
Bridget Walsh
Self-publishing my first novel. Part Two. (4 min read)
How many times did you re-upload your manuscript? I uploaded mine at least three times. Here's why, and here's the screen-shot of my...
Bridget Walsh
Travel blog - My character’s imagined journey from Quebec to New York in 1846.
My protagonist, Annie Power, and her siblings, left Ireland in June 1846. They had planned to go directly to New York to join their aunt...
Bridget Walsh
Self-publishing my first novel. (Two minute read)
It’s a strange experience to finally publish my first novel, Daughters of the Famine Road. I’m so pleased I can do this on Amazon KDP. I...
Bridget Walsh
Mixing created characters and a real woman from history. (2 min read)
Asenath Nicholson was an America philanthropist who toured Ireland twice in the 1840s. The first book she wrote, "Ireland Welcomes the...
Bridget Walsh
Character and plot: Agnes Mary Clerke
Imagine a small girl, six years old, living in Skibbereen, County Cork, in 1848, during the Famine Years. Her name was Agnes Mary Clerke,...
Bridget Walsh
Self-pubbing
So, my novel, ‘Daughters of the Famine Road,’ is now finished and on Amazon Books. Next up is marketing. I’ve been thinking about trying...
Bridget Walsh
Q. The World of your novel. Is it invented, or based in a real place? (Two minute read.)
A. I began to write my historical novel, ‘Daughters of the Famine Road,’ I started with locations in Ireland that I was most familiar...
Bridget Walsh
Self-pub editing (three minute read)
I’m just at the point of completing the final edit of my novel, “Daughters of the Famine Road.” I’ll upload it, today or tomorrow, on...
Bridget Walsh
My first novel
I signed up for my first ever cover design with Reedsy. com. Here's hoping my investment will result in a beautiful cover for my novel...
Bridget Walsh
The Irish Wolfhound- An Ekphrastic Poem
This poem is based on the Irish Famine painting ‘Black 47’, by the artist Michael Farrell. I saw the painting last year (Jan 2019) in...
Bridget Walsh
Potato Blight - Found Poem
The Great Famine 1845-1849, resulted in the deaths of one million people and a further one million people emigrated from Ireland. This...
Bridget Walsh
Speranza
Speranza is the pen name for Jane Elgee, later Lady Jane Wilde (27 December 1821 – 3 February 1896). A Wexford woman, poet, Young...
Bridget Walsh
Caroline Chisholm - 'The emigrants' friend'
I came across her name when I worked in Northampton. Some of my students came to college from the Caroline Chisholm School. I didn't know...
Bridget Walsh
Jane Leary: A Skibbereen Girl
Jane Leary was one of one hundred and ten girls sent out to Australia from Skibbereen Workhouse during the Irish Famine of 1845-50. A...