Jim Halligan

Jim Halligan was born in Wexford, in 1960. He grew up listening to his mother singing her songs and to his father telling him stories about his childhood. He was the baby of his family as his brother and two sisters were always that much older than him. His aunt and uncle lived, childless, next door so his father knocked a new window out of our house so the children could climb into their garden. Two wildernesses to play in!

Despite all this his parents did manage to knock some kind of education into him. So much so, he headed off to become a teacher. While teaching Jim finds himself making up stories for the children nearly every day. It keeps them listening. It keeps him sane!

He got the notion to write children stories with his friend John Newman. Their first publication was a science story, they then moved into nature, and beyond. Writing stories he released was fun.

He lives with his wife, Jane, and two outstanding sons, Mark and David in County Wicklow.

Seeing Red, Fowl Play and Fowl Deeds are all wonderfully funny children’s books published by Wolfhound Press.

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