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Cole Moreton is a writer and broadcaster exploring who we are and what we believe in. His BBC Radio 4 series The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away won multiple awards including Best Documentary in the BBC Radio Awards, Best Writing at the World’s Best Radio Awards in New York and gold for Audio Moment of the Year at the Arias.

Cole writes for the Mail on Sunday and was named Interviewer of the Year at the Press Awards 2016, then shortlisted again in 2018. His work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Sunday Times, and many other.

The first of Cole’s non-fiction books was Hungry For Home: A Journey To America From The Edge Of Ireland and published by Viking in 2000. This combination of journalism, travelogue and d ...more

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Cole Moreton I've just finished The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I've turned for some light relief to Me by Elton John, which is an absolute romp. Next o…moreI've just finished The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I've turned for some light relief to Me by Elton John, which is an absolute romp. Next on the list is Skellig by David Almond, because a friend has sent it to me and I really should have read it by now! After that, who knows?(less)
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Cole Moreton Write something down. I know that sounds flippant but I meet a lot of people who say they want to be writers but haven't quite started yet. So, get wr…moreWrite something down. I know that sounds flippant but I meet a lot of people who say they want to be writers but haven't quite started yet. So, get writing. Doesn't matter if it doesn't quite work, worry about that later. Concentrate for now on getting things down and seeing how that feels as the words begin to pile up, then you won't have a blank page and you will have written, you'll be writing. (less)
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“There was always a big party on the night before anyone left for the States. They called it an American wake, because the whole community stayed up to keep the emigrants company through their last night on the island, just as they would have bidden farewell to a soul beginning the long journey towards eternity. There was almost no chance that anyone present would ever see the departed again”
― Cole Moreton, Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets - A Journey from the Edge of Ireland
tags: emigration, family, ireland, irish, loss
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“There was always a big party on the night before anyone left for the States. They called it an American wake, because the whole community stayed up to keep the emigrants company through their last night on the island, just as they would have bidden farewell to a soul beginning the long journey towards eternity. There was almost no chance that anyone present would ever see the departed again”
― Cole Moreton, Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets - A Journey from the Edge of Ireland
tags: emigration, family, ireland, irish, loss
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