Things I Know by Helena Close

Things I Know by Helena CloseSaoirse (18) can't wait to leave school but just before the Leaving Cert her ex boyfriend dies by suicide. Everyone blames Saoirse even Saoirse herself, who cheated on him with his best friend. She is shunned by her schoolmates and suffers unbearable levels of anxiety. Everything becomes too much, and on the night of the school Debs, Saoirse throws herself into the river and wakes up in a psychiatric hospital. Slowly, painfully, with the support of a

One who is disguised and has an eye on their destruction

There are lots of fun things you can do whatever space you have

you might like Jack Kerouac's On the Road

as for so many young Irish girls

From Belfast to London and back again the eleven stories that comprise Caldwell's first collection explore the many facets of growing up - the pain and the heartache

outcast - but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts

while women artists have been overlooked and held back from shaping more empowering roles

resignation and hope

Ireland's Forgotten Past paints a surprising

They mine gold from the darkness and seek luminescence in the deepest oceans

including the shelling of the Four Courts and a gathering of the Irish Women Workers’ Union at Liberty Hall in 1914

Many of O Riordain's poems came out of his struggle with the isolation