{"id":309388,"date":"2026-02-21T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309388\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:00:18","slug":"finding-joy-by-dearbhla-mescal-hollywood-star-pauls-mum-invites-us-to-find-happiness-in-small-pleasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309388\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Joy by Dearbhla Mescal: Hollywood star Paul&#8217;s mum invites us to find happiness in small pleasures"},"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\">Dearbhla Mescal\u2019s handsome new book charts how her life changed irrevocably after a cancer diagnosis and how kind messages from online followers inspired this wise and uplifting poetry collection<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dearbhla Mescal, author of Finding Joy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cal11no1credit1 111.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)\">Dearbhla Mescal, author of Finding Joy<\/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)\">If \u2018April is the cruellest month,\u2019 as TS Eliot once famously wrote in The Waste Land, then surely this January was one of the wettest of months. No wonder then that in the throes of such rainy weather I was delighted to come upon a new collection of poetry, Finding Joy by Dearbhla Mescal, which put a spring in my step, made the bleak and damp days brighter.<\/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)\">In her introduction, Mescal describes how a meaningful conversation with a friend a few years ago set her off on an unexpected personal journey. \u201cI heard somewhere that if you reach 28 days of anything, it will become part of your daily practice,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dearbhla Mescal\u2019s handsome new book charts how her life changed irrevocably after a cancer diagnosis and how kind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,5042,279],"class_list":["post-309388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-paul-mescal","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}