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Where do stories come from? Most of the time, superstitiously, we don't ask. And usually, it’s hard to say, because the process is so chaotic when it’s happening, and in retrospect seems too random to catalogue. But in the case of my story, “Lockjaw”, which appears in the latest issue of The Lonely Crowd… 
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Writing about real people makes you maternal about your characters. You know things about them that you mightn’t know about fictional creations. Their birthdays, for example. Today, 150 years ag...
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The home of Irish writing online ("This week’s featured writer is Mary Morrissy- an award-winning Irish novelist and short story writer" http://t.co/ws9MHRgscs)...
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I've just got a sneak preview of the cover of Dubliners 100, the book of short stories Tramp Press is bringing out in June to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Joyce's Dublin...
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The Rising of Bella Casey is to be RTE Radio's Book on One next week, January 20 - 24. The night-time slot consists of 15-minute excerpts broadcast, Monday to Friday. One of the challenges of the ...
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EASTER MONDAY, 1916 A skirmish,' Bella Beaver declared with more certitude than she felt. "That's all it is.' ' They said it was a rising,' her daughter, Babsie, shot back. 'Isn't that what they called it, Starry?' Babsie had been stepping out with Starry Murphy for a couple of months. His given name was Patrick but a doting aunt had likened him to a celestial gift, being the only boy in a clutch of girls, and the name had stuck. He was one of them, a Catholic, an RC, but though she disapproved, Mrs Beaver had held her tongue. "That's exactly so,' Starry said
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Here's an interview I did with Reuters - this has appeared in media as far-flung as the Hindustan Times. Reuters writer David Cutler put this one together and did a great job. When the Irish 20th ...
When the Irish 20th century playwright Sean O’Casey (above) came to write his autobiography, he failed to mention the impoverished last decade of his only sister’s life. It was this act of ‘literary murder’ that prompted Irish writer Mary Morrissy to write The Rising of Bella Casey, published under the Brandon imprint by O’Brien Press, Ireland’s leading children’s publisher, in its first foray into adult fiction. Morrissy, a historical novelist who has been described as “Ireland’s Hilary Mantel”, published her first novel, Mother of Pearl, in 1995. Her second novel, The Pretender, was the fictional portrait of a woman who convinced the world she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia and had survived the slaughter of Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
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Brought to Book: Mary Morrissy on Alice Munro, Jane Eyre and James Wood
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Audrey Magee is a name you might not have heard of, but you will. Her debut novel, The Undertaking, is coming out with Atlantic Books early in February. It's a novel set in Germany and Russia du...
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I have come to a sense of place in my writing very slowly. When I started to write – back in the 1970s – I was intent on removing all traces of the “local” from my work. I was afraid of being par...
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His sister Bella hardly featured in Sean O'Casey's autobiography but Morrissy fills in the missing years
The playwright Sean O Casey composed six volumes of autobiography but didn't reserve much space for his sister, Bella, whom he killed off at least a decade earlier than her actual demise during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918. Fifteen years older, and practically a second mother to him, her principal sin was that of marrying a common soldier, thus throwing away the advantages of an above-average education "for the romance of a crimson coat". Morrissy's novel restores the missing years and invents some fairly convincing extenuating circumstances
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