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Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
She writes features for The Irish Times and has been published in all the Irish nationals. She has been a writer for Fáilte Ireland, the Irish tourist board since 2018 and gets to visit ancient historical sites, houses and castles and then write their stories.
Miriam’s first book was published in summer 2023, a literary nonfiction memoir about grief, family and the sea. There are plans for many more books being hatched, as she finally gets back to the multiple manuscripts she’s been working on over the last ten years. Writing is something in her blood, an obsession she can’t quite shake, a dream she never gave up on.
Last year she curated and worked with Naked Ape author and surrealist artist Desmond Morris on a soon to be opened museum in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, dedicated to his life’s work, housing his paintings, his books, a selection of his letters and correspondence and hundreds of artefacts he collected on his extensive travels. Desmond told her to get published she should write a book about Christmas, so she intends to spend this summer doing just that.
Miriam lives in Kildare, is a single mother to four children, two of whom are still at home, and their beloved dog Juno, who drags them out for long walks on the Curragh every day.
Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
She writes features for The Irish Times and has been published in all the Irish nationals. She has been a writer for Fáilte Ireland, the Irish tourist board since 2018 and gets to visit ancient historical sites, houses and castles and then write their stories.
Miriam’s first book was published in summer 2023, a literary nonfiction memoir about grief, family and the sea. There are plans for many more books being hatched, as she finally gets back to the multiple manuscripts she’s been working on over the last ten years. Writing is something in her blood, an obsession she can’t quite shake, a dream she never gave up on.
Last year she curated and worked with Naked Ape author and surrealist artist Desmond Morris on a soon to be opened museum in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, dedicated to his life’s work, housing his paintings, his books, a selection of his letters and correspondence and hundreds of artefacts he collected on his extensive travels. Desmond told her to get published she should write a book about Christmas, so she intends to spend this summer doing just that.
Miriam lives in Kildare, is a single mother to four children, two of whom are still at home, and their beloved dog Juno, who drags them out for long walks on the Curragh every day.
Author: Miriam Mulcahy
Genres: Memoir
Over the course of seven difficult years Miriam Mulcahy lost her mother, father and sister, each grief threatening to drown her. But instead of going under she discovered the lessons of the sea, letting the water teach her how to get through anything in life: one breath builds on another, another stroke, another kick and you will get home.
This Is My Sea takes our greatest fear, death, and wraps it up in language so fine and beautiful that the reader is carried along and comforted by how completely lost Miriam was and how she found solace in all the things that sustained her: books, music, art, friends, love, swimming, and of course the sea.
For fans of The Salt Path by Raynor Winn and I Found my Tribe by Ruth Fitzmaurice.
“Lyrical, powerful and impactful”
- The Irish Examiner“Prose written with the pen of a poet”
- Desmond Morris, author of The Nake Ape“Full of wisdom and poetry and epic emotion, This is My Sea explores grief, memory and loss through vivid words and striking imagery. It echoes lost summers and the beauty of life, like a shell held to the ear”
- Ed O’Loughlin, author of The Last Good Funeral of The Year“For sea swimmers, those who have lost someone or simply lovers of beautiful prose, This is My Sea will find you looking out to the water with clearer purpose”
- Business Post“A beautiful book on grief and recovery”
- Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses“This is My Sea is an emotional and commanding book packed with poignant stories of family and love, of pain and fear, of grief and suffering. It is also a beautifully written, heartfelt expression of courage and hope, an extraordinarily uplifting book about life and living it to the fullest”
- Writing.ie
Author: Miriam Mulcahy
Genres: Memoir
I want to walk through time, for days, for nights, I want every kind of walk, walks under sunsets and stars, walks of rain and storms, through howling winds and the most susurrating of breezes. I want to see, I realise, not just this kind of landscape of trees and fields and fences, I want to walk on top of mountains, over endless expanses of moor, wild reaches and spaces, I want to escape all people, I want to walk alone, I look at the horizon, and realise the foolhardy extent and scale of my ambition that has taken root and now grows within me and will not be silenced, suffocated or hemmed in - an ambition to walk completely to the edge. I need to burst through all the walls, to rise past all limits, to go right to the foot of the sky.
When she first set foot on the Beara Breifne Way, Miriam Mulcahy expected a long-distance hike that would take her across some of the most beautiful scenery in Ireland. What she found instead was a living tapestry past and present: ancient landscapes where myth and memory linger; pilgrim routes and rebel roads; quiet villages, wild coastlines, hidden valleys, and the ghostly thread that ties them all together.
Following in the footsteps of Domhnall Cam O'Sullivan Beare's fateful march in 1603, she begins her journey uncertain - of the path, of herself, of what she hopes to find. But as the miles unfurl, something shifts, and she begins to carve a line of connection in time.
This is an extraordinary story of landscape and legacy, of attention and endurance, of losing sight of yourself and finding something far better: renewal. Lyrical, reflective and quietly radical, it captures what happens when you give yourself over fully to a journey - and how, in doing so, you return changed.