Category: Event

  • Events in Early 2025

    My upcoming events for the year (so far) – updates as time goes on: 19th January: Online book club event with Irish Cultural Centre, Massachusetts. 5pm GMT. 29th January: The Word on Wednesday, Sligo Central Library, 6.30pm. Moderator: Niamh McCabe. In-person and livestream. More here. 19th February: Online interview about writing, at Canadian writer Rob…

  • NOVEL OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST

    Thrilled sideways that Seaborne is shortlisted for Eason Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards alongside books by Sally Rooney, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Colin Barrett, Christine Dwyer-Hickey, & Kevin Barry. Congrats to all shortlisted writers in the APIBAS & thanks humungously to all New Island Books.

  • EVENTS – AUTUMN 2024

    A roundup of upcoming events: KINSALE, 5th October, 2.45pm: Join me and Sinead Gleeson with Tara Flynn at Words By Water Literary Festival in Kinsale, Co. Cork. More here. DUBLIN, 10th October, 6pm: I am taking part in the ISLA Festival at the Cervantes Institute in Dublin in an event called Fascinating Lives, with Fernando Beltrán (Spain), and Irene…

  • CERVANTES INSTITUTE EVENT – Seaborne

    Round table discussion: “Fascinating lives” JOIN ME AND OTHERS ON the 10th October at the Cervantes Institute in Dublin for this event, Fascinating Lives: Delve into the life of adventurous and creative minds through the more recent books of three authors from Spain, Argentina and Ireland In a contemporary world where autobiography is very present,…

  • TRINITY COLLEGE INTERVIEW

    I had a conversation about my novel NORA with the great writer and journalist Martina Devlin for Inspiring Reads at Trinity College Dublin, where we both studied.

  • BRENDAN O’CONNOR SHOW & SUNDAY TIMES – SEABORNE

    The link to my interview with Brendan O’Connor on RTÉ Radio 1 is HERE. We talked autism, sobriety, anxiety meds, secrets, Anne Bonny, and more. He was very nice and friendly and I enjoyed the chat. More chat from me in the Sunday Times yesterday – this time an essay I wrote about autism, tiny fictions,…

  • KENNYS SIGNING – SEABORNE

    I signed 100 copies of Seaborne at Kennys Book Shop yesterday afternoon; and the visitors’ book! I also did my first ever reading from the novel, filmed by Dean Kelly for the Kennys YouTube channel (will link when it’s ready). It’s always a pleasure to visit this historical, storied place, teetering with books and stunning…

  • Winner – Irish Short Story of the Year

    I was genuinely delighted to win Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards for my story This Small Giddy Life about two daughters and their wandering, wonderful mother who gets dementia. My own mother is living with this curious condition, so it is a close-to-my-heart story. You can read the story in…

  • NEW YORK EVENTS – DECEMBER 2022

    I’m ending the Ulysses 100 year with two NORA events in New York city. 8th December, 6pm to 8pm – Screening of the film ‘The Tale Behind Ulysses’ (which I’m in) at Jefferson Courthouse Library & after-film discussion panel with Producer Jane Applegate and author Kerri Maher, whose book The Paris Bookseller is being celebrated…

  • Events – NORA & more

    I will appear at the following festivals/conferences/venues in the next few months: Llangwm Literary Festival, Wales (with Culture Ireland support) – 12th and 13th August – reading and flash workshop. See here. Drumshanbo Written Word Weekend, Leitrim – 27th August – reading and short fiction workshop. See here. Telling Stories, Centre for Public History conference,…