This week’s guest on Behind the Lines is novelist and former All-Ireland minor winning hurler Tadhg Coakley.
Nicky English gave Tadhg some bohemian mystique when he described him as “ a skinhead with a donkey jacket who adopted a very nonchalant attitude to life” but Tadhg was in his fifties before he became a published author, finally finding the confidence to make good on a decades-long desire to be a writer.
We discuss how that came about, and how aspiring writers can overcome their fears and misgivings to go and become the real thing. We also talk about the basic importance of sport, and why Gavin’s mid-lockdown shrieks about why professional sport shouldn’t be rushing back were, well, a crock of shit.
Tadhg’s picks were: “Sport”, a poem by Paul Durcan; “Prosinecki”, a short story by Adrian Duncan in a 2018 edition of Stinging Fly; A Natural, a novel by Ross Raisin; The Throwback Special, a novel by Chris Bachelder
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