Linda Hooke

Linda Hooke

About Linda Hooke Linda is a retired Primary headteacher who has researched and written several articles of local historical non-fiction, which have been published in the Northern Ireland Family History Society’s magazines and in Familia 2022, The Ulster Historical...
James McHenry

James McHenry

About James McHenry James McHenry, the son of George McHenry and Mary Smiley, was born in Lame in 1785, and witnessed the fighting in the town between the United Irishmen and Royalist troops during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. He would go on to become a medical...
Jim Shields

Jim Shields

About Jim Shields Jim Shields, formerly Emeritus Professor of Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Ulster, retired from his academic career in 2004. A passionate supporter of the arts he was a relative latecomer to creative writing, but once started he has...
Forgiveness Anthology Contributors

Forgiveness Anthology Contributors

Forgiveness is the Hardest Thing In 2020, Rica Keenum suggested the possibility of an anthology based on the topic of Forgiveness. As the world ground to a halt under the restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic the idea took a back seat, but in 2021, during the...
Morna Croft

Morna Croft

MORNA CROFT About Morna Croft Having discovered a love of writing in her sixties the author has had a couple of stories published in an anthology of Creative Writing. Married with two sons, two wonderful daughters-in-law and five grandchildren, she has retired by the...