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Blockbuster Hollywood Best-Selling Author Anne-Marie O'Connor publicly expresses her support for my story!

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Anne-Marie O'Connor (centre) is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author who wrote the book "The Lady in Gold" upon which the film "Woman In Gold" is based. The book/film is about the incredible true story behind this famous painting by Gustav Klimt - Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold). Less formally it is also known as "The Mona Lisa of Austria" . Anne-Marie (standing) with Maria Altmann (the woman played by Helen Mirren in the film). Maria is the niece of the woman depicted in the painting (Adele Bloch Bauer) and its rightful owner. Sadly the painting was stolen from her family by the Nazis during the second World War. The book/film tell the story of how she sued the Austrian government for its return and actually won it back against all odds. Anne-Marie with Randol Schoenberg (the man played by Ryan Reynolds in the film). He is the tenacious young lawyer who agrees to help Ms Altmann in h

Coming Soon - Cregane: The Musical!

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People keep asking me what crazy ideas I have in store for future adaptations of my story? But how on earth does one even begin to do justice to the ridiculously absurd fucking fiasco that was my childhood? Read on.... Lets face it - a straight up adaptation of my story would be way too dark and depressing. Plus it gets boring if you're simply re-telling the same story over and over again in different mediums. Far better to keep the general themes but fictionalize/change up the specifics with each new iteration so you can have a little fun with it. A more dramatic "What if...." stage adaptation that explores the possible outcomes if things had taken a slightly different turn could be a very interesting too! Oh dear, why do so many of our  "family farms"  always seem to end up in tears? Maybe its time to ask the young people who keep getting dragged into these incredibly messy and chaotic situations for their honest views on what could be done to improve things?

Best-selling author Michelle McDonagh expresses her support for my story "Family Farm Survivor"

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  Michelle McDonagh is a newly-minted best-selling author who recently released her debut novel entitled "There's Something I Have To Tell You" . I saw it and couldn't help but notice the thematic similarities between her fictional story and my own nonfictional one ( Family Farm Survivor by David Lynch (cregane1.blogspot.com) ) so I reached out to her via twitter: Despite being in the middle of a busy press tour to promote her book I was pleasantly surprised that she still took the time to listen to my story and tweet me back some lovely messages of public support: I fully agree that it is extremely important to record stories of abuse, mistreatment and the exploitation of children and young people on our farms - mainly because so much of it is still going on and victims of it desperately need to know that they are not alone and that there are others out there who they can turn to who understand what they are going through. Michelle McDonagh on X: "@rural_ireland