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| This week on writing.ie |
| We have a great giveaway! Win two tickets to Dublin: One City One Book 2012, Celebrating Dubliners at the National Concert Hall, Friday 13th April, 8pm
with The Dubliners (named after the book), Joycean singers the Shannon Colleens & Noel O'Grady, comedian David McSavage and Dublin writers Peter Sheridan and Dermot Bolger. Tickets â'¬25 & â'¬20 (concessions available) For more information and some great offers at The Stephen's Green and Fitzwilliam Hotel, check out www.onebookonecity.ie
 There's one man in Dublin who has admitted praying that the recession wasn't about to end - Brian Finnegan, author of The Force Redundancy Film Club, out this week, explains why to writing.ie.
And you can win a copy at our Competitions page!
 It's Easter week, and Shane MacThomais reveals to writing.ie's Barbara Scully little known details of the 1916 Easter Rising. She went to Glasnevin Cemetery to meet Shane and discuss his brilliantly currated book Dead Interesting - Stories from the Graveyards of Dublin.
Packed full of fascinating facts, we have a copy of Dead Interesting to giveaway! Visit our competitions page for details
- In Part Four of our series Where I Write, Yvonne Cassidy, Donal Conaty and Laurence O'Bryan reveal the secret details of their writing spaces!
- Last week Sheila Kiely showed us how she juggles six children, a career and writing Gimme The Recipe in Setting Goals and Making Time. This week Sheila explains how and why she decided to write Gimme The Recipe and what those Essential Ingredients were to land a publishing deal.
Tell us your story
 This week in Mining Memories, John Tackney reveals just what rural electrification was all about in Electric Light; in Monday Miscellany Dave Kenny explains 'Manity': How My Purple and Green Hair Made Me Want to Dye, and in Writing & Me new author SB Knight tells us about his route to publication and the launch of Born of Blood
If you have a story to share with us and the National Folklore Archive, helping to build a first hand picture of Ireland's history, please send it in! Check out our Tell Your Own Story for how.
And in our Guest Blogs...
 In Centre Stage Barry Houlihan gives us research tips on sources and using literary archives
Caren Kennedy looks at Writing for Television, The Great British Sitcom in Word Play
From the Front Row,  Jean Turbidy reports from Waterford Writers Weekend on workshops and wonderful weather!
 Louise Phillips looks at The Boy in the Attic, Crimes against our Children in Crime Scene
 Catherine Ryan Howard is back in Self Printed, talking to Lauren Clark about going from News Anchor to New Author.
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| We looking for your submissions of personal essays in the Monday Miscellany, Mining Memories and Writing & Me sections! See what we have there now and check here for full submission guidelines:
We are working with the National Folklore Collection in UCD to preserve selected submissions to these sections to add to their rich archive.
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| Writing.ie has been developed by Vanessa O'Loughlin with vital support from the Arts Council. Vanessa is a publishing consultant and runs The Inkwell Group, Ireland's leading publishing consultancy. She is Vice Chair of Irish PEN , Irish Adviser to The Alliance of Independent Authors and a member of Publishing Ireland. |
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