Nuala O’Connor
Nuala O’Connor was born in Dublin, Ireland; she lives in East Galway. Already well-known under the name Nuala Ní Chonchúir, she has published four short story collections, the most recent, Mother America, appeared from New Island in 2012. Her third poetry collection The Juno Charm was published by Salmon Poetry in 2011 and her second novel The Closet of Savage Mementos appeared April 2014, also from New Island; it was shortlisted for the Kerry Irish Novel of the Year Award 2015. In summer 2015, Penguin USA, Penguin Canada and Sandstone (UK) published Nuala’s third novel, Miss Emily, about the poet Emily Dickinson and her Irish maid. Miss Emily was shortlisted for the Bord Gáis Energy Eason Book Club Novel of the Year 2015. www.nualanoconnor.com
Nuala O’Connor on Granta.com
Fiction | The Online Edition
Gooseen
Nuala O’Connor
Nuala O’Connor’s short story about Nora Barnacle, and her first meetings with James Joyce.
Fiction | The Online Edition
Consolata
Nuala O’Connor
‘Daddy always said our apples were blessed because the order lived beside us. He liked to gift crates of Egremont Russets, the sweetest of all his fruit, to the sisters.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Nuala O’Connor and Siobhán Mannion in Conversation
Nuala O’Connor & Siobhán Mannion
‘I’m always interested to hear about people’s writing spaces; I presume the canary is a quiet bird.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
Mayo Oh Mayo
Nuala O’Connor
‘Tonight there is a moon-rind, a nicotined fingernail, hanging low over the lake; above it, a Swarovski sparkler of a star.’
