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Seamus Boshell

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in Dublin, Ireland

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Seamus Boshell is the author of The Great Wall of Ballygall, a comic literary novel in which the Dublin town of Ballygall finds itself enclosed by an extraordinary wall. Blending humor, satire, and compassion, the novel explores immigration, belonging, identity, and the surprising resilience of community in a changing Ireland.

Born and raised in Dublin and now living in Boston, Seamus draws on both Irish and immigrant perspectives to write stories that celebrate the complexity, contradictions, and humor of ordinary lives. His fiction is inspired by the belief that laughter and imagination can illuminate even the most serious questions about who we are and where we belong.

Seamus holds an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University and has publishe ...more

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The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

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Seamus Boshell answered Alex's question: Authors seem to write about "what they know." Has your experience as an unreliable narrator of your own life helped you with your work? Thanks for your unreliable question, Alex. In my own writing of The Great Wall of Ballygall, I prioritized playfulness and vigor in the narrative voice of Brendan 'Finn' McCormack above everything else. Above veracity, reliability, dependability... I See Full Answer
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