G Hughes

G Hughes writes from a farmhouse outside Kinsale, where the fog rolls in off the harbour and, according to the neighbours, never quite leaves. A graduate of University College Cork, Hughes spent years as a local journalist before turning full-time to folk history.

Hughes's volumes for CWMK are rooted in the seanchaí tradition — the Irish storyteller — and in painstaking parish-record research. The books span the island from the Wild Atlantic Way to Dublin's quays and the cathedrals of Ulster.

Hughes prefers interviews conducted over tea, notes longhand in Moleskine, and claims never to have seen a ghost personally — though, it is said, they have seen plenty of things they would rather not explain.