{"id":34156,"date":"2025-08-31T05:41:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T05:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34156\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T05:41:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T05:41:40","slug":"cecelia-ahern-im-eager-to-get-younger-readers-i-dont-want-to-become-irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34156\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecelia Ahern: \u2018I\u2019m eager to get younger readers. I don\u2019t want to become irrelevant\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe Dublin author has just published her 20th novel \u2013 hailed by some readers as a return to the romantic form of her bestselling debut. Along the way, she has worked with Nicole Kidman, learned to accept rejection, and to follow her own sense of \u2018what if?\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Author Cecelia Ahern. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6c705d30-15b6-4848-a667-64f3b5186803.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Author Cecelia Ahern. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI simply couldn\u2019t do what you\u2019re doing,\u201d Cecelia Ahern tells me; by which she means write journalism or non-fiction. Lord knows she has tried, going so far as to get a journalism degree from Griffith College Dublin before she launched her novelist career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI just can\u2019t. I\u2019ve had 20 years of people asking me to write a piece for this [or that],\u201d she says. \u201cWhen I write, I\u2019m not giving you just one opinion. There\u2019s all the sides. That\u2019s just how my mind is. I can never put myself at the centre of something. I just keep going, \u2018what if?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dublin author has just published her 20th novel \u2013 hailed by some readers as a return to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,12612],"class_list":{"0":"post-34156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-tanya-sweeney"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}