Margaret Hawkins: 3 books

“You knew my mother better than that…” “I don’t know what you’re intimating, girl, but I’d watch what I was saying if I were you.” Born in a 1960s mother and baby home Hannah Casey has never known her father but when her mother finally discloses his name she is determined to confront...

From painted nails to pilgrimages, red squirrels to red shoes, talking bikes to wedding blessings, power moves to pews on wheels, Irish rural writer, Margaret Hawkins, captures incidents, reactions and emotions to stir the heart and trigger a smile in this new poetry and prose collection

‘And then there was Rose …’ – five little words that catapulted Wexford woman, Patricia Quinn, into a dedicated search for information about the great-aunt she never knew.Rose Quinn died in an asylum less than a year after being committed. Such was the stigma attached to having a relative...