Bronagh Slevin

In her writing, Bronagh is fascinated by the way the past makes itself heard in the present, and how this can affect questions of identity and belonging. She is devoted to unravelling the legacy left by little-explored areas of world events and in particular, to women who have been written out of history.

Water Will Find its Way

Water Will Find its Way is self-published on Amazon in 2012. An exploration of family bonds and identity among three generations of women displaced by war, it begs you to understand how changing fortunes can make people do things they find unsavoury. It tells of the importance of saving from oblivion, with music as the redemptive link to three women’s quest to recover their origins.

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Sicilian Girl

SICILIAN GIRL is set in 1978 in the heart of provincial Sicily, where outdated codes of practice still hold sway. A teenage boy struggling to recover from his mother’s murder finds himself a tour guide for an American girl who has inherited a house nearby.

Sicily is dark myth, epic journey; a cactus fruit, prickly on the outside but sweet underneath.

Songs of Grace

Daughter of the Troubles, Grace O’Malley, finds a foremother in her namesake, sixteenth century pirate queen Grainne O’Malley, that enables her to rewrite herself back to life and overcome the guilt that has haunted for years.

Sky Dance

Flicker spin across the grey horizon,

aerial dynamics of starlings in sonic formation,

a murmuration, in ornithology-speak.

There’s no one around to share this glory with,

it’s all for me. I listen in. Freedom this way.

If only it were so easy to up and leave.

Stormi di storni, in Italian,

that shifting inky swell-print against the sky.

Unfettered democracy of the flock

in tune with one another. Listening.

I’m finding freedom without flight, the greater fight this time.

Tá mé i dtiúin.

I am in tune.