Beginner’s Pluck: Miriam Mulcahy

“Accept that your first draft will be rubbish. Then rewrite.”

Miriam Mulcahy, author of This is My Sea

Brought up in County Kildare, Miriam enjoyed a childhood full of culture.

“My dad was in the army, but he could have been an actor,” she says. “He was offered a place in the Abbey Theatre but felt the life would have been too precarious.”