A passionate writer (I also write under the
pseudonym Curtis. C. Lennon), I am currently
writing a historical novel, inspired by the
stories my Grandmother Courtney constantly
delighted me with, about her childhood years
growing up on the family farm in the wonderfully
named Irish village of 'Turkish', and which
further, draws on my strengths as a previously
published writer and historian, specialising
broadly in British and Irish History and Politics.
(See for example my biography of the West
Cork revolutionary, entitled P.S. O'Hegarty
(1879-1955): Sinn Fein Fenian.
Further details of which can be found on the
website of publishers Anthem Press at http://anthempress.com/
and on Amazon at http://www.amazon.co.uk/P-S-OHegarty-1879-1955-Nineteenth-Century/dp/1843318598/ref=reg_hu-wl_item-added).

My novel is set in Ireland in 1918, the story
of two brothers caught up in the revolutionary
turmoil of Ireland's War of Independence,
as told by the younger, surviving sibling
and main character, 'Finn', in his self-styled
'jail journal'.
Just to say here, the first chapter begins
with Fin's describing a journey writ large
in his memory, a recent 'bike-ride', which
in turn sparks further memories, insightful
here in revealing both brother's shared history,
even as Fin races onwards, to as yet undiscovered
revalations . . . .