View from Kiltumper: A Year in the West of Ireland

by Christine Breen

A year in Kiltumper, Co Clare, Ireland with the authors Christine Breen and her husband the Irish novelist and Man Booker Longlisted author, Niall Williams. Articles first appeared in The Clare People and are about country living, farming, gardening, Irish traditional music, writing books, and living along the Wild Atlantic Way in the West of Ireland. Christine and Niall are the authors of the bestselling O COME YE BACK TO IRELAND, a non-fiction book about the couple leaving Manhattan for a 200 year old cottage in the West of Ireland, the cottage that Christine's grandfather left in 1910.

Genres: Memoir

121 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 10, 2018

About the author

Her Name is Rose is Christine's debut novel.

Born and raised in New York and educated in Boston and Dublin, she now lives in the west of Ireland. In addition to being a writer, Christine is an artist, homeopath and garden designer. Along with her husband, the novelist Niall Williams, she co-authored four bestselling non-fiction books on country living in County Clare, which were published by Soho Press in New York. O COME YE BACK TO IRELAND is now available as an ebook.

In 2002, Christine and her family travelled around the world for 9 months. A travel memoir, SO MANY MILES TO PARADISE was published in Ireland the following year, and is now also available as an ebook. At various times Christine has been a houseplant doctor for Neiman Marcus, a copyeditor for 'The American Journal of Medicine', an administrator of writing workshops, the author of a monthly column ‘The View from Kiltumper’, and the founder of an artist cooperative and gallery where she sold her paintings.