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Michael Harding

Michael Harding

Michael Harding is a playwright and novelist. Most widely known as the author of such plays as Strawboys, Una Pooka, Misogynist, Hubert Murray’s Widow, Sour Grapes, and Amazing Grace, all produced by the Abbey Theatre, and more than a dozen other plays for leading Irish Companies. He has written three novels, Priest, The Trouble With Sarah Gullion, and Bird In The Snow. His memoir Staring At Lakes was published in 2013. He is a member of Aosdana.

Grow old, know less, say nothing and hear more

When meeting old friends, there are times when things are best left unsaid

Married golfer pays the price for straying from the fairway

There’s a good way and a bad way to deal with the frustration of a flattened marriage

The fear of illness haunts me after dark

My fears keep me awake at night, but I’ve learned that patience is the key to keeping them in check

I wrote a sweet little affirmative note, as people do on Facebook

I wanted to say, ‘Maybe you should just leave him.’ But I didn’t dare commit that idea to the cyberarchive of the universe

The only thing I have to say about sexual morality is this . . .

. . . I wish that love could take away our hearts of stone and give us hearts of flesh

I made a mental note to give up alcohol. Again

An actor from the US told me to go wild, so I found myself at an Athlone drama festival

Penetrated by the wounds of a woman’s heart at Cúirt

Behind the scenes and in the audience at Cúirt

Searching for my soul among my abandoned saplings

Getting back to nature in search of my better nature

Sometimes I use the word ‘erotic’ randomly

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