Aoife O'Regan

Marketer and writer from Dublin

Aoife O' Regan is a marketer and writer from Dublin. She has contributed to various publications including Dublin Inquirer, Totally Dublin, Metro Herald, AU Magazine and Le Cool Dublin.

Sophie White: harrowing first-hand experience recounted in lived horror stories

Reviewed: Corpsing by Sophie White

Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Stories comprises a collection of personal, lived horror stories in which the setting is Sophie White's own body.

Books • 08 Mar 21

Kerri ní Dochartaigh: Growing up in Derry at the height of the Troubles, she associated her homeplace with fear and upheaval.

Book Review: Thin Places by Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Thin Places, Kerri ní Dochartaigh's debut work, a mixture of memoir, history and nature writing, demonstrates that she is in possession of the gift of storytelling, using it to explore how and to what extent our place of origin informs our identity.

Books • 26 Feb 21

Billy O' Callaghan: Life Sentences is tragic and solemn, but also hopeful and redemptive

Reviewed: Life Sentences by Billy O' Callaghan

Cork writer Billy O'Callaghan's second novel is described by the author himself as 'a skin of fiction laid over a considerable amount of truth and fact.'

Books • 15 Feb 21

Danielle McLaughlin: we care about her characters' fates and getting to the bottom of the mystery.

Book review: The Art of Falling by Danielle McLaughlin

Danielle McLaughlin makes the transition from short story to first novel with this family drama set in Cork, where absolutely everyone is flawed, writes Aoife O'Regan

Books • 09 Feb 21

Una Mannion: We are immersed in the Gallaghers' world in a deeply sensory way, writes Aoife O'Regan

Reviewed: A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion

Sligo writer Una Mannion's first novel is about the repercussions of a fateful decision to leave a daughter at the side of the road after frazzled nerves on the mother's part.

Books • 02 Feb 21

Galway 2020 launch - now comes the literary vade mecum, courtesy of The Stinging Fly

Reviewed: The Stinging Fly - The Galway 2020 Edition

To mark its reigning year as European Capital of Culture The Stinging Fly invited writers established and new to submit work inspired by the City of the Tribes. The result is this Galway-themed edition.

Books • 13 Jan 21

Hilary Mantel: the collection documents her development as a writer

Reviewed: Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel's collection of essays and reviews reveals fascinating insights into the days before she became a two-time Booker prize-winner, the only woman to ever receive the prestigious accolade twice.

Books • 11 Jan 21

John Boorman: an air of calm acceptance about the stage he is at in life

Review:John Boorman's Nature Diary: One Eye, One Finger

'The pandemic has brought so much death, but also a soothing silence', writes John Boorman in his alluring new Nature Diary,One Eye, One Finger, with illustrations by Susan Morley.

John Boorman • 15 Dec 20

Gabriel Byrne: I stand there, an intruder in my own past…

Reviewed: Walking with Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne

In an early chapter of Walking with Ghosts, Gabriel Byrne cites his vivid imagination as one of his strong suits, perhaps a trait that led to him becoming one of our most treasured actors, a veteran of the screen and stage

Books • 01 Dec 20

Ray D'Arcy: stories invited and they came to him, under the themes Life, Laughter, Lockdown, Love, Little Ones and Loss

Reviewed: A Page From My Life - The Ray D'Arcy Show

As the nation adjusted to lockdown, Ray D'arcy set a challenge for listeners to his RTÉ Radio 1 show, inviting them to submit a story 500 words long. Can a meaningful tale be told in so few words? Answer is very happily in the affirmative.

Books • 20 Nov 20