I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
“I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.”
“I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.”