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Winner – Irish Short Story of the Year

24 November 2022Awards, Blog, Event, Events, News, Short StoriesAn Post Irish Book Awards, Awards, Book Awards, Dementia, Irish short story, Nuala O'Connor, short fiction, Short Story of the Year, This Small Giddy Life, Vanessa O'Loughlin, writing.ieNuala Ní Chonchúir

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 the New Island anthology, A Little Unsteadily Into Light, available here.

Thanks so much to An Post (awards sponsors) and writing.ie (short story award sponsors), especially Vanessa O’Loughlin. Thanks to New Island books and editor Jan Carson, for commissioning the story. We had a lovely night of celebration last night at the Convention Centre in Dublin. See my insta for (not many more) pics here.

Bloomsweek events 2022

8 June 2022Awards, Events, Interviews, news, News, Nora, NovelsAwards, Bloomsday, Bloomsday 2022, Bloomsweek, Hodges Figgis, IFI, James Joyce, Nora A love Story, Nora Barnacle, NoraNovel, Nuala O'Connor, Trinity College DublinNuala Ní Chonchúir

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 of discussion after the screening. More here.

June 12th, 7.30pm – I’ll be online at The Glue Factory with Rónán Hession talking about One Dublin One Book and James Joyce. To join us via Zoom, DM @DavidCollard1 on Twitter with your name and email address.

June 13th, 6pm – chairing a panel about Ulysses at Hodges Figgis, for the new Cambridge ed. of Ulysses with Fintan O’Toole, Frank McNally, and Catherine Flynn. More here.

June 15th, 6pm – NORA event at Alliance Francaise: More here.

BLOOMSDAY:

June 16th – reading/discussion at TCD Ulysses 100 Symposium with Mary Morrissy about Nora Barnacle. See here.

June 16th – interviewing David Collard in Hodges Figgis at the launch of his book Multiple Joyce. More here.

DALKEY BOOK FESTIVAL:

June 18th – Dalkey Literary Award reading event. NORA is shortlisted for Novel of the Year. See here.

June 19th – Dalkey Book Festival event on NORA. 3.30pm. Book here.

NORA – TWO SHORTLISTINGS

5 May 2022Awards, Events, News, news, Nora, NovelsAwards, Dalkey, Dalkey Literary Awards, James Joyce, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, Listowel, Nora, Nora A love Story, Nora Barnacle, NoraNovel, Nuala O'ConnorNuala Ní Chonchúir

While I’ve been busy with One Dublin One Book, NORA has been shortlisted for two awards which, obviously, is thrilling.

Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year at Listowel and Irish Novel of the Year at the Dalkey Literary Awards. How is that for fancy? Delighted!!

I’ll be taking part at events at both festivals in June.

NORA SHORTLISTED IRISH BOOK AWARDS

21 October 2021Awards, News, Nora, NovelsAn Post Irish Book Awards, APIBAS, Arena, Arena RTE, Awards, Irish Book Awards, James Joyce, Nora, Nora A love Story, Nora Barnacle, NoraNovel, Seán Rocks, shortllistNuala Ní Chonchúir

I’m delighted that Seán Rocks and the Arena crew have nominated NORA in the RTÉ Audience Choice Award at the An Post Irish Book Awards. As a big Arena fan, this is such an honour. I’m also honoured that NORA is the only novel on the shortlist.

You can vote here.