NUALA O'CONNOR

Category: Interviews

  • 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,…

  • PRESS – SEABORNE

    We’ve had lots of great press for SEABORNE thanks to Peter O’Connell. I was here in the Irish Daily Mail talking about my love of mavericks, like Anne Bonny. There was last Saturday’s Irish Times Magazine interview with Niamh Donnelly. And last week’s wonderful Sunday Independent review by Lorraine Courtney: And today a fab review…

  • Bloomsweek events 2022

    I have a raft of events for Bloomsweek. I’d love to see some of ye out and about across the week in Dublin: June 11th, 2.30pm – speaking at opening of Ulysses Imagined exhib, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin. More here. June 11th, 6.20pm IFI – premiere of BBC Arena documentary, James Joyce’s Ulysses. I’m part…

  • 1 DUBLIN 1 BOOK

    The whole month was a blast, from my first stop in London, on to Galway, then lots of events in Dublin, and finally to Monaco. It was exhausting and educational, a pleasure and a privilege. Thanks to Anne-Marie Kelly and Jackie Lynam of the Dublin Unesco City of Literature office in Dublin City Libraries, all…

  • JOYCE in BRAZIL

    I’m taking part in a roundtable for NEI in Brazil (online) today as part of Ulysses 100. Join us on YouTube here. Discussion of Joyce’s family, life and work in contemporary literature, film, radio drama, and exhibition with me, Alan Gilsenan, Áine Stapleton and Colin Murphy. With thanks to Beatriz Kopshitz Bastos for having us!…

  • RODDY DOYLE @ POLITICS & PROSE

    Roddy Doyle and I had a great chat about short fiction and his new collection at Politics and Prose. Watch it back on YouTube now: https://youtu.be/p2m6VmEpj5I

  • Roddy Doyle interview

    I’m interviewing Roddy Doyle, online at Politics and Prose in Washington, about short fiction. This event celebrates the USA publication day for Roddy’s book Life Without Children, which is a warm, funny, poignant collection of ten stories. Join us! 5pm USA, 10pm Ireland. More here.