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Colm Herron could be described as different. He gave up writing at the early age of 21 and came out of retirement over thirty years later to produce For I Have Sinned , a Joycean journey of the mind that he says wouldnt let go of him till the last word was written. His first story-telling career began when he was seven. At that time he wrote stories on discarded exercise book sheets and sewed them together on his big sisters sewing machine before selling them to classmates at a penny apiece. Three years later he was telling cliffhangers every Saturday to the denizens of the local gambling and snooker hall. Colms abiding memory is that these big wasters seemed to enjoy this weekly break from misspending their lives. When he was 14 he had a play on BBC Childrens Hour and at 21 he was bringing his short stories to Brian Friel, a near neighbour and emerging playwright. Friel told him, "This stuffs better than what I was doing at your age. Keep it up". But Colm came away from these meetings unimpressed and remembers thinking, "This guys going nowhere. I dont know why I came to him at all". Colm gave up writing and decided to live instead. Meanwhile Brian Friel took off and while his pla

Author

Herron, Colm

Publisher

Dakota

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780954645304

Rating

4.25 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14