Earlier this week, we shared an extract from Irish Sporting Lives edited by Terry Clavin (TC) and Turlough O'Riordan (TO’R). Today we're catching up with them to hear all about the creative process, what’s on their bookshelves, and the art of literature.
Irish Sporting Livesedited by Terry Clavin and Turlough O’Riordan . Today we’re catching up with them to hear all about the creative process, what’s on their bookshelves, and the art of literature.I wanted to be a historian first, and the writing came out of that, so for me writing is more of a means to an end, the communication of knowledge. Obviously over time, you learn to appreciate that writing is an enjoyable exercise in and of itself, and it does become a pleasure to hone your craft.
It’s not a selection of the greatest Irish sportsmen and women, though there are plenty of those included, but rather an attempt to bring together a collection that would be varied and interesting, and failure is often more interesting than success. There are plenty of colourful, if not to say, infamous, characters.It was envisaged after the original Dictionary of Irish of Biography was published in 2009.
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