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Billy O'Callaghan (born 9 December 1974) is an Irish short fiction writer and novelist.He is best known for his short-story collection The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind, which was awarded the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award for the short story in 2013 [1] [2] [3] and his widely-translated novel My Coney Island Baby, which was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's ...
Richard Barry O'Brien (1847–1918), historian and journalist; John Cornelius O'Callaghan (1805–1883) Colmán N. Ó Clabaigh, friar and historian; Matthew Potter (living) Sharon Slater (living) James Ware (1594–1666) Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896–1977)
The Dead House is a 2015 young adult novel and the debut novel of Dawn Kurtagich. [1] The book was published in paperback in the United Kingdom on 6 August and 15 September 2015 by Orion Publishing and in hardcover in the United States on 15 September 2015 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers . [ 2 ]
The Open Door series, an adult literacy series of novellas by well-known Irish authors, was launched in the mid-1990s by Irish publisher New Island and author Patricia Scanlan.
The 2019 awards ceremony was held in Dublin on 20 November 2019. The event was hosted by Miriam O'Callaghan and Evelyn O'Rourke. Over 115,000 votes were cast by readers to select the winners in each category. [19] The winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year was Overcoming by Vicky Phelan and Naomi Linehan. [5]
Edna O'Brien (1930–2024) Billy O'Callaghan (born 1974) Philip Ó Ceallaigh (born 1968) Joseph O'Connor (born 1963) Niamh O'Connor (living) Mary O'Donnell (born 1954) Maggie O'Farrell (born 1972) Liam O'Flaherty (1896–1984) Brian O'Nolan (1912–1966) Glenn Patterson (born 1961) Julie Parsons (born 1951) James Plunkett (1920–2003) Keith ...
The British Home Secretary, Sir Derek O'Callaghan MP, has received several death threats from anarchists affiliated with Stalinist Communism – and a pleading letter threatening suicide from Jane Harden, a nurse with whom he had a short affair some months earlier. O'Callaghan's old friend and family physician, Sir John Phillips, visits to ask ...
O'Callaghan was born in Dublin. His father was a solicitor from Talbot St. in the city; his mother (née Donovan) came from the south of the country. He was educated at Clongowes Wood and later at a school in Blanchardstown. [1] He first started writing in the Comet and in the Irish Monthly Magazine of Politics and Literature.