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Children’s author discusses The Birth of a Killer

WORLD-renowned children’s author, Darren Shan, was in Ennis this week speaking to schoolchildren about his latest book, The Birth of a Killer and busy signing and encouraging children to keep writing for fun.He met with schoolchildren from across the country in Glór on Friday and treated them to a unique reading of excerpts of his new book aSwell as answering their questions on his book and on being an author.Darren Shan’s real name is Darren O’Shaughnessy and although he is a Limerick man, he was born 38 years ago in London. At the age of six, he moved to Pallaskenry, County Limerick, with his parents and younger brother, and has lived there ever since.He went to primary school in Askeaton, where his mother was a teacher, then on to secondary school in Copsewood College in Pallaskenry. Later, he went back to London to study Sociology and English at Roehampton University. He then worked for a cable television company in Limerick …

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