by Barry Walsh | Feb 13, 2024 | New Blog
Great lunch with friends who first met at school more than 60 years ago – and we haven’t stopped meeting since. These meetings have become more precious and nourishing as we grow older. But oh my, how the years rocket by! ...
by Barry Walsh | Jun 11, 2023 | New Blog
At school I was often laid low by quite severe asthma attacks, for which I would take myself outside the class and sit on a bench to use an inhaler. On one occasion, my New Zealand-born English teacher, Basil Dowling, came past and, noting my distress, asked if it...
by Barry Walsh | Jun 7, 2023 | New Blog
Having a book published brings the rather disappointing realisation (not for the first time!) that your ego is a good deal bigger than you like to think it is. So, the good reviews make you happy and, thankfully, those who don’t like the book tend not to post their...
by Barry Walsh | Mar 3, 2023 | New Blog
After having to order a duplicate birth certificate for my Mum after she died, aged 101, we found the battered original in her bible –- bookmarking, in my view, the best chapter of the New Testament.
by Barry Walsh | Jan 22, 2023 | New Blog
Two of the longest walks in the life of a teenage boy in the 60s: The hesitant stroll across the dance floor to ask a girl to dance. The even longer trudge back to mates after she says, ‘no’. I wonder if boys are less easily embarrassed today? I wonder, too, if girls...
by Barry Walsh | Jan 3, 2023 | New Blog
One of the inspirations for my new novel, Danny Boy, is something I know to be true: ‘A good youth club can save your life’. If more support and money (political support without money doesn’t cut it) had been given to youth clubs during the past ten years, fewer young...
