Declan Fahy

I taught history in a secondary school in Galway for twenty-nine years and fished lobster off Inishbofin in the summers, which taught me more about the west of Ireland than any archive. My grandfather was born in a cottage outside Clifden with no road to it. My novels are about the people who built the roads, lost the land, emigrated or stayed, and I try to write them the way they would have told it themselves: plainly, with a bit of a laugh. I live in Salthill, near enough the sea to hear it at night, with my wife Úna and a lurcher called Pádraig.