NUALA O'CONNOR

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  • The County Measure – GALWAY

    I’ll be on RTÉ Radio 1 on The County Measure, talking about colour in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, on 5th June – Bank Holiday Monday – between 11am and 12pm IST. The County Measure is a much-loved radio programme presented by writer and broadcaster Vincent Woods, who travels across Ireland exploring county identity in terms of…

  • Switzerland, alcohol, autism, & me

    I have a new essay ‘Cailín Deas, Cailín Dána’ published in Trasna today. The essay is about many things, including Switzerland, sibling loss, autism, giving up alcohol, Maria Edgeworth, and photographs…it’s a braided/hybrid piece, a mixumgatherum. You can read the essay here. Hope you enjoy it!

  • NORA MOST BORROWED

    NORA was the most borrowed adult fiction book from Dublin City Libraries in 2022! Huge thanks to all who borrowed, and espesh to Jackie Lynam & Anne Marie Kelly of One Dublin One Book, all at Dublin City Library and the stellar team at New Island Books. This is all such a thrill for a…

  • NORA IN NEW YORK

    I’m off to NYC next week for the last of my NORA events – it’s been a wild, action-packed two years. Anyone NY-based can catch me at one (or all!) of the following events – I’d love to see you. Register early! Thurs 8th Dec: On the 8th I’m at the Jefferson Library (where the…

  • 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…

  • Shortlisting – Short Story of the Year

    Shortlisted! My dementia story *This Small Giddy Life* from the New Island Books anthology A Little Unsteadily Into Light is up for the writing.ie Story of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2022. We had a lovely shortlisters’ event at the GPO last night. This story is meaningful to me as I took elements of…

  • ELECTRONIC SHEEP X NUALA O’CONNOR

    Fantastic launch tonight at the beautiful Royal Society of Antiquaries house on Merrion Square, Dublin, for Electronic Sheep x Nuala O’Connor ‘I am Ireland’ scarf (the Nora Barnacle scarf!). The genius designers Helen Delaney and Brenda Aherne have used the entire text of the tiny ‘Ireland’ chapter of my novel NORA for the scarf, and…

  • 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…

  • SHORT STORY OF THE YR – LONGLIST

    One of my short stories – can’t say which for now – has been longlisted in the An Post Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year category, run by writing.ie, which is lovely. Shortlist will be announced 20th October. So crossing fingers! Here are the longlisted writers: Roisín O’DonnellEamon McGuinnessWendy ErskineNuala O’ConnorTim MacGabhannSheila ArmstrongDanielle…

  • 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,…