This week’s guest on Behind the Lines is one of Ireland’s most exciting writers, Eimear Ryan.
Eimear is writer-in-residence at UCC, and writes brilliantly on sport every week for the Irish Examiner.
Her first novel, Holding Her Breath, was published earlier this year by Penguin Sandycove.
Here she offers some great tips for writing and insights into the publishing process.
We also discuss sport: do you have to play a sport to offer a true insight into it? Are the demands placed on elite sportspeople by the media wrong? And will Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles go down in history for standing up to that pressure? Eimear also discusses the societal pressures on women to look a certain way and act a certain way, and how playing a team sport like camogie can be a rebellion against those pressures. Eimear’s picks are:
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