Sweary
That cranky young wan from award-winning blog, Arse End Of Ireland. Sweary’s also noted for her dedication to cobbling together unrelated imprecations to make new and bemusing insults, mostly because she’s not eloquent enough to otherwise explain her deep-seated terror of genre fiction and Fianna Fail.
In 2006, The Irish Times called her “… the most talented writer at work in Ireland today”, and her mam still can’t understand why this is better than being the new Marian Keyes. Which it totally is. Alright?
Sweary, like any good working-class lass, has a Masters in curtain-twitching and petty begrudgery, and so her contributions to the pot tend to centre around social commentary, which translates as “snide observations and wink-wink-style revelations on the battle scars of every wannabe glamour model who wafts past”. Having swapped the small-town tractor-envy of South County Galway for the big-town track-mark-envy of The “Real” Capital (stop sniggering, you at the back), Sweary feels she’s seen just about every facet of Irish life she’d ever care to. That’s not a lot of facets, mind. But when did lack of field experience ever stop a wagon from Ireland’s arse end from spreading the slurry?
Outside of scribbling pot shots at oblivious politicians, Sweary can be found topping up her espresso addiction, blabbering at complete strangers in underground clubs, or wedged into a 200+ hour XBox RPG. In the second twenty-eight years of her life, she hopes to learn to drive, instigate the fall from grace of Ryan Tubridy, and win the Booker with something furiously dark and hypnotic (like a tribal witch doctor).
Arse End Of Ireland was nominated for Best Blog in 2007 and in 2008 at the Irish Blog Awards, and went on to win Best Humour Blog in 2009.
You can reach Sweary at … er… sweary [at] coddlepot.com, though why you’d want to is anyone’s guess. You can fill up on her take on National Joys and Entertainments here, on Culch.ie, Ireland’s bestest pop culcher website. And you can also perve on her through …
And should you feel the need for an indepth Sweary experience, here’s your lot.
