Julian Gough
Author Julian Gough was born in England in 1966, grew up in Ireland, and now lives in Berlin. He sang in the punk band Toasted Heretic, which had a top ten hit in Ireland in 1991 about not kissing Sinead O’Connor. He is the author of Jude: Level 1, the prologue to which won the 2007 BBC Short Story Prize. His poetry collection Free Sex Chocolate: Poems and Songs was published in 2010. He tweets here.
Updated: 24 November 2010
Irish author Julian Gough got through the Celtic Tiger years on little more than love and fresh air. Now resident in Berlin, here’s his tale of staying sceptical (and broke) as the rest of the country went mad (and bust) on property fever.