Nuala O'Connor

Seven Irish authors on longlist for Dublin Literary Award 2025

Seven Irish authors have made the longlist of 71 books nominated for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, the world's most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English.

Book Of The Day: Nuala O'Connor's Seaborne

A vast array of novels have carved their plots from the remnants of history.

Seaborne by Nuala O'Connor - read an extract

It's 1718 on Providence Island in the Bahamas, and recently married Anne Bonny is restless. When the so-called Gentleman Pirate Jack Rackam crosses her path, Anne must decide where her destiny lies...

Page Turners reading list: the books featured in this week's show

Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award shortlist announced

Irish Book Awards - inside the RTÉ Audience Choice Award nominees

One Dublin One Book: Nora by Nuala O'Connor - read an extract

When Nora Barnacle, a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn's Hotel, meets young James Joyce on a summer's day in Dublin, she is instantly attracted to him...

Reviewed: Becoming Belle by Nuala O'Connor

A Victorian-era tale of one woman's ambition on the London stage whose life is beset by scandal and redeemed by ultimate triumph, Nuala O'Connor's new novel is inspired by the real-life Isabel Bilton.

Reviewed: Stinging Fly Stories

40 stories straight from the airy and edgy spaces of contemporary Irish life - that's the matter in hand in this 380-page anthology, which gathers stories from 1998 to the present, edited by Sarah Gilmartin and Declan Meade.

Nuala O'Connor on why our libraries matter

Dublin Book Festival preview: Nuala O'Connor, who will be speaking at the Dublin City Public Libraries Readers' Day at this year's Dublin Book Festival, writes for RTÉ Culture about the joys of local libraries.

5 more smart summer reads - once more unto the beach

You will not go wrong with any or indeed all of these three cracking novels - and two collections of short stories - to while away beach-time, be it Bali, Benidorm or Bray. Paddy Kehoe high fives a handful of compelling reads published this year.

Reviewed: Joyride to Jupiter by Nuala O'Connor

Nuala O'Connor writes with a true and at times spell-binding voice, and each of her nineteen short stories is so self-contained it could be a novella, writes Abigail Tuite of Joyride to Jupiter.