Famous Writers who used Spaces just like Irish Shepherd Huts

There is nothing quite like your own 'writing hut'.  A unique, small space where only coffee, peace and inspiration lie. To enter a world with one purpose, to help, encourage and inspire your writing. You are not alone in having this thought. Some of histories greatest writers utilsed the 'writers hut' to help their writing. 

Below are 5 famous writers who loved their 'writer huts'.

Mark Twain's Writing Hut, New York

"It is the loveliest study you ever saw...octagonal with a peaked roof, each face filled with a spacious window...perched in complete isolation on the top of an elevation that commands leagues of valley and city and retreating ranges of distant blue hills. It is a cozy nest and just room in it for a sofa, table, and three or four chairs, and when the storms sweep down the remote valley and the lighting flashes behind the hills beyond and the rain beats upon the roof over my head—imagine the luxury of it." -
Mark Twain, in a letter to William Dean Howells, 1874

Roald Dahl called his Writing Hut 'The Gypsy House'

"The whole of the inside was organised as a place for writing: so the old wing-back chair had part of the back burrowed out to make it more comfortable; he had a sleeping bag that he put his legs in when it was cold and a footstool to rest them on; he had a very characteristic Roald arrangement for a writing table with a bar across the arms of the chair and a cardboard tube that altered the angle of the board on which he wrote. As he didn't want to move from his chair everything was within reach. He wrote on yellow legal paper with his favourite kind of pencils; he started off with a handful of them ready sharpened..." 
The Guardian 

Above is a photograph of inside Roald Dahl's writer hut ' The Gypsy'.

Henry Thoreau's Writer Cabin 

Above is a photograph of the inside of Henry David Thoreau's writers hut situated in Walden Pond.

Henry David Thoreau
To help focus on his writing Henry David Thoreau escaped to his cozy writers hut to enjoy a simpler lifestyle. Inside his simple hut was a bed, table, 3 chairs and a desk for his writing. Some of his greatest pieces were written in this tiny hut.

The 'Writing Hut of one of my favourite writers
Dylan Thomas.

"Dylan Thomas’s writing shed began its life back in the 1920s. A Dr Cowan, who spent his holidays at the boathouse, bought the shed to house his Wolsey car. He paid £75 to erect the £5 shed on cast iron pillars on the cliffside at a time when the average house price was just £200... In his, as Thomas told Princess Caetani in 1952, 'wordsplashed hut', the walls were pinned with photos, reproductions and magazine cuttings of Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, Louis MacNeice, W. H. Auden, William Blake, a painting by Modigliani, picaresque nudes, serial specials from Picture Post and similar magazines, rhyming lists and word lists of alliterations." 

The amazing Hut George Bernard Shaw used

George Bernard Shaw's  (1856-1950) called his writers hut 'London so if when people called looking for him his staff would say he was in 'London'.


Glamping is a new thing!? Well not to George Bernard Shaw because in 1930 George spent most of remaining 20 years in a well designed, fancy writing hut situated in Hertfordshire, England. Just like Irish Shepherd Huts he had his electricity and comforts. He could even move it so he could follow the sun and spent years writing and enjoying nature in his own little hut - we love it.

Inside the writing hut of George Bernard Shaw, which was called the London.

Different huts, same purpose

No longer do you have to lie cold in your hut at night in order to enjoy distraction free writing and nature. Find peace and quiet to help your studies, research and writing while enjoying warmth, coffee wifi and warm showers. The perfect balance of old and new.

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