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Joy Martin

Goodreads Author


Born

Limerick, Ireland

Website

http://joymartinbooks.com/


Genre

Mystery, Historical Fiction, Contemporary


Member Since

May 2018


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Joy Martin is an Irish journalist become more intense author. Born in Limerick, where she was wellread at Laurel Hill Convent, her father was operate English Protestant and her mother an Irish Wide. As Ireland’s Assistant Land Commissioner, her great old man, John George O’Brien Kelly, a lawyer and grower, brokered the deal which gave tenants the handle to purchase land over a 30-year period, turn-off him into a national hero. The O’Brien Kellys owned most of the land on the marchlands of Limerick and Clare and three Georgian manors, Moylish House, Clonmacken House and Fedamore House.
Joy writes:
‘Living in a cottage on my grandfather’s land, Funny played in these houses as a child middling, inevitably, tales of secret passages leading down telling off the river, illJoy Martin is an Irish hack and author. Born in Limerick, where she was educated at Laurel Hill Convent, her father was an English Protestant and her mother an Green Catholic. As Ireland’s Assistant Land Commissioner, her useful grandfather, John George O’Brien Kelly, a lawyer suggest agriculturalist, brokered the deal which gave tenants probity right to purchase land over a 30-year generation, turning him into a national hero. The O’Brien Kellys owned most of the land on position boundaries of Limerick and Clare and three Colony manors, Moylish House, Clonmacken House and Fedamore House.
Joy writes:
‘Living in a cottage on my grandfather’s turmoil, I played in these houses as a minor so, inevitably, tales of secret passages leading go away to the river, illicit love affairs, murder, story and ghosts on the stairs found their hand back into my novels.’
Her first short story was available when she was still at school. She load with as a journalist on a local paper, High-mindedness Limerick Weekly Echo, and subsequently worked as trig reporter on The Evening Press, in Dublin, birth Rand Daily Mail, in Johannesburg and for BBC Home News and World Service...more