{"id":5186,"date":"2025-08-17T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/5186\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:25:11","slug":"in-her-west-cork-refuge-jules-thomas-paints-tends-the-garden-and-writes-her-memoirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/5186\/","title":{"rendered":"In her west Cork refuge, Jules Thomas paints, tends the garden \u2014 and writes her memoirs"},"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\">Former partner of Ian Bailey says her work keeps her from sliding down the \u2018slippery slope\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jules Thomas at her home in West Cork. Photo: Michael Mac Sweeney\/Provision\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SN JULES074.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)\">Jules Thomas at her home in West Cork. Photo: Michael Mac Sweeney\/Provision<\/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)\">Jules Thomas is a busy woman. She is preparing for her first Dublin art exhibition, chasing her \u201cvery lively\u201d cat, Graham, around the barn and finishing a book on her life. And with murder suspect Ian Bailey entangled in it for three tumultuous decades, it holds the promise of revelations to come.<\/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\u2019ve been told not to talk about it, but&#8230;\u201d Jules says, disarmingly, about the memoir and what it might contain. She is speaking from her art studio and home deep in west Cork, an area that became the centre of one of Ireland\u2019s most enduring murder cases until the death of her former partner Bailey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former partner of Ian Bailey says her work keeps her from sliding down the \u2018slippery slope\u2019 Jules Thomas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,5443,19,17,5444,127,3608],"class_list":{"0":"post-5186","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-ian-bailey","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-liam-collins","14":"tag-netflix","15":"tag-sophie-toscan-du-plantier"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186","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=5186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}