My Writings
Welcome to my World
Colin Broderick is a writer from Northern Ireland . He lived in
New York for nineteen years where he worked mostly in construction.
Orangutan is the story of how he tried to become a writer while drinking
himself through a series of mishaps that eventually led to hospitals
and incarceration. Broderick recently sobered up and moved to Prague
where he now lives with his wife Renata, their dog Graham and a satanic
cat named Angelica.
Latest Works
It sounds like the beginning of one of those bad jokes you hear, So this drunk guy from Northern Ireland, and a black transvestite in a silver plastic tiara, who’s convinced she’s the true Queen of England, walk into a bar…, but it wasn’t a joke. The year was 1991 and the bar was a lowlife hole in the wall watering hole in the Tenderloin district in San Francisco . I was twenty three and about to get sober for the first time. Within the conversation that took place that night over some gut rot vodka lay the kernel of the book I am currently working on. I am the orangutan.
Four years ago I started work on what I intended to be a documentary about the Irish experience of living in New York post 911. What really happened over the next few years was that my life fell apart as I drank my way into jail cells, hospitals and recovery again. The documentary I am currently editing will try to capture some of that experience. Like the book it will also be titled Orangutan.
Recent Topics
I am new to this whole blog thing so just bear with me. What I will attempt to do is give you a little info on what it’s like to be new in Prague , my marriage and my recovery.
My Blog
This is my Blog if I can I will add to this regularly updating you on life in Prague and progress on my current projects.