Julia Kelly: A two-week stay at Annaghmakerrig led to becoming a writer and mother
Author Julia Kelly describes a time, almost 20 years ago now, when her life was at a low ebb, career-wise and romantically — and how a two-week stay at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, gave her an identity, a way to live
Author Julia Kelly at her home in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. Picture: Gareth Chaney.
I’d been living in London for eight years having mistakenly decided on a career as a desk editor. I was singularly untalented at that — I left several publishing jobs before I could get fired. I wanted to write about my own observations of life — since the age of 14 I knew I wanted to be a writer.
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