Odhrán Dowling : Luck seemed to come my way when I met my French partner on her Erasmus in 2024
Tralee, where I spent the first 25 years of my life, was often described to me by colleagues and friends as the ‘last-chance.’ It was a place where you learned to live and left, or abided the confines of a system that would leave you there for life.
Wild notions of leaving Tralee usually manifested, in others, a need to emigrate to the southern hemisphere. I too played with that idea for some time, but in my early 20s I realised I was searching for a more artistic way of life.
Luck seemed to come my way when I met my French partner on her Erasmus in 2024. I moved over to be with her in a small town in the south of France, about an hour from Marseilles, in March 2025.
I wanted to devote myself to writing.
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