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Stephen Byrne

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in Dublin, Ireland

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Poetry, Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Stephen Byrne is an Irish personal chef, poet and food writer living outside Chicago. His debut collection 'Somewhere but not Here' won the RL Poetry Award, 2016 in the international category and was selected by Vinita Agrawal and was a Finalist in the Poetry category of the "2018 International Book Awards". His poetry book collaboration 'Wayword Tuesdays' was shortlisted for Writing Magazines Writers’ Circle Anthology Award. Former Associate editor with ELJ Publications, he now writes food recipes and articles for the website This is Galway. ...more

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80 Books Read in the Goodreads Challenge 2021

I've been doing the Goodreads challenge for the past few years now and love the push to read. This year again, I went with 80 and it's the usual mixed-bag of (little) poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Previous years poetry dominated … Continued

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Stephen is Currently Reading

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The War of Art

by Steven Pressfield (Goodreads Author)

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The Lady of the Lake (The Witcher, #5)

by Andrzej Sapkowski

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Grendel

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Stephen’s Quotes

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs.”
― Frank Harte

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“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
― William Faulkner

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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