Richard James

I'm Irish and finally after twenty years in business/entrepreneur I've turned my attention to becoming an author and novelist, which was my first career choice but too afraid to try. I'm related on my mother's side to John B. Keane, playwright and author of such great works as The Field, The Matchmaker and Sive and I attribute my passion for writing to these genes. Hopefully I can do him justice. As a boy I can remember sitting in his pub in Listowel, Co Kerry as he spoke to my parents. They would always drop in to say hello as we were on our way to Ballybunion for our annual two weeks in the sun. I was too young to know just how brilliant a man he was but his books and plays tell us all now.