Bridget Walsh
The Famine Years in North West Donegal
A friend gave me a copy of this lovely book about the Irish Famine. The author, Patrick Campbell, writes about his family who lived in...
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Bridget Walsh
- Aug 19, 2022
- 1 min
Mid-August, 2022
An image of a canal and the old railway line crossing above
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Bridget Walsh
- Aug 9, 2022
- 2 min
What are you reading this week?
Reading for research and also for pleasure. A history book and a crime novel.
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Bridget Walsh
- Aug 8, 2022
- 1 min
Book Orders in the US and the #Irishdiaspora #historicalnovel #indiewriter
August 2022 is looking like a slower month for my book orders. These are the total orders since I self-published my first novel back in...
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Bridget Walsh
- Aug 3, 2022
- 1 min
Summer book sale for lovers of the Irish story.
Irish historical novel recounting the story of two intrepid young women, living through the Famine years.
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Bridget Walsh
- Aug 1, 2022
- 3 min
Researching emigration in my own family.
Researching emigration in my own family. Census records and photographs.
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Bridget Walsh
- Jul 22, 2022
- 2 min
Do you workshop your creative writing?
Indie writers and creative writing workshops
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Bridget Walsh
- Jul 16, 2022
- 2 min
Emigration - My character’s imagined journey from Quebec to New York in 1846.
The Journey My protagonist, Annie Power, and her siblings, left Ireland in June 1846. In 'Daughters of the Famine Road,' they had planned...
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Bridget Walsh
- Jul 9, 2022
- 1 min
Progress in the US with my first Indie-pub'd novel.
Developing as an Indie writer and publisher of Irish historical novels.
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Bridget Walsh
- Jul 4, 2022
- 2 min
Inspiration: The graveyard. An extract.
Inspiration for a setting in my novel about the Irish Famine, 'Coming Home.'
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Bridget Walsh
- Jul 1, 2022
- 2 min
Serendipity and historical research #amwriting #irishhistoricalnovels
It started with a short drive. I was in Ireland last week to babysit my grandsons. My daughter, Fran, was going to a wedding in Rome with...
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Bridget Walsh
- Jun 20, 2022
- 2 min
Novel endings and influences #amwriting #irishhistoricalnovels
Revising the end of my novel, I felt the ending was a bit too drawn out, not just for me and the characters, but for the reader. I...
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Bridget Walsh
- Jun 14, 2022
- 2 min
Indie-pubb'd novel (part 2) - data and next steps #historicalnovels
I've had a very successful KDP free e-book promotion. It's fascinating to see where copies of 'Daughters of the Famine Road' are now. It...
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Bridget Walsh
- Jun 11, 2022
- 1 min
Research for historical novels - Part 2 - Transportation. (2 min read) #irishhistoricalnovels
It is 1846 and the Famine in Ireland is still building. At the end of my first novel, Daughters of the Famine Road, Jane Keating, one of...
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Bridget Walsh
- May 28, 2022
- 1 min
Anna Haslam 1829 - 1922 Ireland #IrishFamineWomen
She began her work in the Famine years Spent almost a century as a fighter. Made bowls of steaming broth for the starving children of...
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Bridget Walsh
- May 26, 2022
- 1 min
Re: Author website. Thursday 26th May, 2022
The creative and marketing work of an Indie writer
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Bridget Walsh
- May 23, 2022
- 1 min
Review: The Jacobite's Wife, by Morag Edwards
Lady Winifred married into a Scottish Royalist family in the early 18th century and became the Countess of Nithsdale. The author, Morag...
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Bridget Walsh
- May 20, 2022
- 2 min
Reasons why I write:
To write about Irish women as protagonists in their stories. To research, understand and depict important periods of Irish modern...
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Bridget Walsh
- May 9, 2022
- 1 min
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
- Apr 27, 2022
- 1 min
Caroline Chisholm - Characters and serendipity
I used to work in Northampton, and some of my students came from the Caroline Chisholm School, in the south of the county. The name of...
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