Reading Aloud
Acclaimed novelist comes ‘home’ to UCD

Best-selling novelist Joseph O’Connor returned to UCD in May to read as part of the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies Writing Home series. O’Connor, who graduated in 1984 with a First Class Honours
degree in English, was introduced by his old classmate, Nessa O’Mahony, the poet and novelist who is currently artist-in-residence at the John Hume Institute.
O’Connor read an excerpt from Star of the Sea, his internationally acclaimed novel about 19th-century Irish emigrants, which spent a record number of weeks at the top of the UK best-seller lists in 2004. He also chatted about how he came to write the book and took questions from the audience about future projects. He is in the process of completing the final instalment in his trilogy of historical novels, while a book of travel essays, Sweet Liberty, has just been published.


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