Category: Event

  • GALWAY LAUNCH – MENAGERIE

    Book launch for Menagerie, 16th May, 6pm: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop in Galway City. Joint launch for Menagerie & Washing Windows V both from Arlen House Celebrating Arlen House at 50

  • STROKESTOWN POETRY FESTIVAL 2025

  • TELEPHONE EXCHANGE @CÚIRT

    Join us at the Cúirt Intl Literary Festival for specially commissioned stories, in a project run by Orla Higgins, called The Telephone Exchange. 09 April to 13 April 12:00pm–7:00pm Hall of the Red Earl, off Quay Street. Free, Ticketed. Immerse yourself in this digital literary installation produced exclusively for Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Take…

  • EVENTS – 2025

    21st March: Nora Barnacle Birthday event at Galway Grá Festival in Galway’s Latin Quarter. 4pm, Town Hall Theatre bar. Details here. 27th March: Launch of essay anthology Wired Our Own Way (New Island Books), 6pm, Hodges Figgis, Dublin. 28th March: Launch of short story anthology Take Six: Six Irish Women Writers (Dedalus Books), 6pm, Charlie…

  • 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,…