50 shades of honesty - Irish American Mike Farragher informs your inner dialogue with the old sod

Farragher has a busy few months ahead promoting his latest collection. On Monday, February 25 and Tuesday the 26th he’ll read at Fiddleheads in Jamesburg, New Jersey alongside musician Seamus Kelleher. 

Then on Tuesday, March 5 he’ll take the stage of the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York in the company of fellow writer Honor Molloy and musician Brendan O’Shea.

“I’m reading at the Irish Repertory Theatre, I did a standup monologue recently that was well received and I am thinking of work shopping a play based on my stories. How fun is it to be me?” he says.

“So the flipside of the Irish temper is creativity, eating up your life with a knife and fork. It’s going to be a fun ride of a book tour.”

The journey from a reflexively conservative fear of rocking the boat to the kind of call it like I see it honesty that blazes on every page of 50 Shades O’ Green has been, in a real sense, the journey of Farragher’s life. The difference is that now he has the sense to embrace it fully and not give a fig what others make of it. 

“Because I was so afraid for so long of what the neighbors think I was driving my life like three wheels of a car,” he explains. “The fourth wheel was my writing and self-expression. 

“When people ask me if I make money writing technically the answer is no, but guess what happened? Since I started to write I’m making three times the money I used to make. My kids are thriving; I’m celebrating the 20th year of my marriage powerfully. I’m more deeply in love with my wife than ever, and it all really began when I stopped caring what the neighbors think. What a great 2013 I have lined up!”

To order a copy of 50 Shades O’Green visit thisisyourbrainonshamrocks.com.

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