Blog: The Donnybrook Writing Academy

    'The Lads', as I came to refer to them, were precisely that: three ruddy, twenty-ish Irish boys - not the slight, poetic type, but the athletic, overgrown footballer variety. I hadn't met any of them yet; their musical gibberish played upon itself and created a layer of comfort in my mind - like watching one of those old BBC programs on PBS. You don't really understand many of the jokes, you can scarcely comprehend the dialect, and you only laugh because of the wry earnestness of it all. Still, it's late at night and you're [...]