Liam Collins: How my mild-mannered, pipe-puffing dad wrote a ‘Game of Thrones’-style Irish sagaI fondly recall him at the table, furiously writing his novelWilliam Collins, photographed at home by his nephew Kieran KolleLiam Collins Today at 06:30When he died 10 years ago, my father, Willie, did not leave very many personal effects. Among them were his own father’s fob watch, the remnants of a bottle of Midleton Rare whiskey and, as it turns out, a 140,000-word manuscript of a vivid and at times violent book.

Source: Irish Independent January 18, 2026 11:34 UTC