NUALA O'CONNOR

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  • BOOKS IRELAND ESSAY

    I have an essay about writing NORA in Books Ireland magazine. You can read it here.

  • Sunday Miscellany – Nora as Goose

    My radio essay about Nora Barnacle, James Joyce, and geese, on today’s Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, is now on the RTÉ website. My bit starts around 11:11 – listen at this link.

  • INTERVIEW – IRISH INDO

    Hilary A White interviewed me for the Irish Independent. We talked about NORA, naturally, James Joyce, alcohol and more, and and you can read it here.

  • Nationwide and NORA – photos

    I had a lovely day filming in Galway, for Nationwide with Anne Cassin and Camerman Matt Kelly of RTÉ. We went to Rahoon, Bowling Green, Presentation Road, and ended up at Kennys Book shop in Liosbán. Great fun, despite the wind and ‘muttering rain’. Broadcast date TBC. Thanks to Dean Kelly and Finbar McLoughlin for…

  • UPCOMING EVENTS – NORA

    NORA publishes here in Ireland on the 10th April with New Island Books and I have some events/readings coming up to celebrate the book. We have two launch events planned, one each for Dublin and Galway. More below: 26th March, 8pm GMT: American writer Jillian Cantor and I will be discussing bio-fiction, to celebrate the…

  • NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW – NORA

    My first New York Times review today and it’s for my beloved NORA. Big thanks to Alida Becker. I’ve pasted the entire thing in below; a swift flavour though: ‘…Nora is entirely convincing in her raw sensuality, her stubborn determination, her powerful sense of grievance.’ Very pleased 🙂 NEW YORK TIMES – 16th March 2021…

  • NORA @ CÚIRT

    The Cúirt International Festival of Literature programme is now announced! I am appearing on Friday the 23rd of April at 5.30pm in conversation, about my novel Nora, with the fab Elaine Feeney. The event is a pre-record, from Ashford Castle, and will be watchable on YouTube. Bookings open now here.

  • NORA REVIEW – TORONTO STAR

    I love this review of NORA, from Janet Somerville in the Toronto Star. Big thanks to Janet, writer and literature teacher, who has written a book about the wonderful Martha Gellhorn.

  • LOST LETTERS OF FLANN O’BRIEN

    Join us online for the launch of The Lost Letters of Flann O’Brien – discovered in a disused cupboard in a Dublin pub during lockdown, The Lost Letters of Flann O’Brien contains 107 never-before-seen letters written to the cult Irish writer by a collection of twentieth-century luminaries, including Joseph Goebbels, Walt Disney, Virginia Woolf, Marilyn Monroe, Bob…

  • Vermont NORA event

    My friend, writer and librarian Peter Money, will interview me about NORA on the 12th March (5pm Irish time, midday USA) in association with the Norwich Bookstore, Vermont. More here. Send an email to virtual2 AT norwichbookstore.com to get the link to join the event, which will be sent as soon as it is available.