NUALA O'CONNOR

Category: News

  • NEW STORY FOR RADIO

    My story ‘Sorrow and Honey’ features on SPOKEN STORIES, RTÉ Radio 1, first broadcast on Sunday 27th Oct, at 7.30pm. You can listen to the story here. Narrator: Clare Dunne Producer: Clíodhna Ní Anluain I had a gorgeous research trip for the story to the Dingle Peninsula, to St Gobnait’s Well, Ventry etc. It’s a…

  • 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,…

  • JUDGING ALLINGHAM FLASH

    A little reminder that I am judging the Allingham Flash Comp this year, and winners will be published in a special issue of the e-journal I edit, Splonk. See their Press Release below. 2024 Allingham Flash Fiction Competition Entries in the 2024 Allingham Flash Fiction Competition will be judged by Nuala O’Connor, acclaimed author of…

  • 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.

  • GLENVILLE PARK – CORK – LITERATURE DAY

    Join us in Cork on 6th July 2024 for a gorgeous day of literature, ladies, literary chats, and so in in the beautiful, historic surroundings of Glenville Park.

  • 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…

  • GALWAY BOOK LAUNCH & ARENA INTERVIEW

    We launched Seaborne in style at the Druid Mick Lally Theatre in Galway on Tuesday. Huge thanks to launcher Edel Coffey, my gorgeous editor Aoife K. Walsh, Marketing & Publicity Manager at New Island Des Doyle, all who came out to set sail with Anne, and to Manuela Moser and all the Cúirt team. And…