Joseph O'Connor
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Joseph O'Connor introducing the Czech translation of one of his books
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| Born | 20 September 1963 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Novelist, journalist |
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Joseph Victor O'Connor is an Irish novelist. He is known for his 2002 historical novel Star of the Sea. Before success as an author he was a journalist with the Sunday Tribune newspaper and Esquire magazine.[1] He is a regular contributor to Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). He is a member of the Irish artists' association Aosdána.[2]
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Early life
Eldest of five children and brother of singer Sinéad O'Connor, he is from the Glenageary area of south Dublin.[3][4] His parents are Sean O'Connor, a structural engineer later turned barrister, and Marie O'Connor.
Educated at the renowned Blackrock College, O'Connor graduated from University College Dublin with an M.A. in Anglo-Irish Literature. He did post-graduate work at Oxford University and received a second M.A. from Leeds Metropolitan University's Northern School of Film and Television in screenwriting. In the late 1980s he worked for the British Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign; his second novel, Desperadoes, drew on his experiences in revolutionary Nicaragua.[5]
Career
His novel Cowboys and Indians (1991) was on the shortlist for the Whitbread Prize. In 2002, he wrote the novel Star of the Sea, which The Economist listed as one of the top books of 2003. His most recent novel, Ghost Light is loosely based on the life of the actress Maire O'Neill, born Mary "Molly" Allgood, and her relationship with the Irish playwright John Millington Synge. It was published by Harvill Secker of London in 2010.[6]
O'Connor has been a Research Fellow at the New York Public Library and Visiting Professor of Creative Writing/Writer in Residence at Baruch College, the City University of New York.[5]
In 2014 he was announced as the inaugural Frank McCourt Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick, where he teaches on the MA in Creative Writing.[7]
He was a regular contributor to Drivetime, an evening news and current affairs programme on RTÉ Radio 1.[8]
Personal life
O'Connor is married to the television and film writer, Anne-Marie Casey. They have two sons. He and his family have lived in London and Dublin, and from time to time in Manhattan during his work in New York City.
Selected publications
- Cowboys and Indians (1991)
- True Believers (Short Stories)
- Even the Olives are Bleeding: The Life and Times of Charles Donnelly (1993)
- Desperadoes (1993)
- The Secret World of the Irish Male (1994)
- The Irish Male at Home and Abroad (1996)
- Sweet Liberty: Travels in Irish America (1996)
- The Salesman (1998)
- Inishowen (2000)
- The Comedian (2000)
- The last of the Irish Males (2001)
- Star of the Sea (2002)[9]
- Redemption Falls (2007)
- Ghost Light (2010)
- Where Have You Been? (2012)
- The Thrill of it All (2014)
Stage plays
- Red Roses and Petrol
- The Weeping of Angels
- My Cousin Rachel - stage adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel.
- Handel's Crossing
Awards and honors
- 2011 Walter Scott Prize, shortlist, Ghost Light[10]
- 2012 Irish PEN Award, for outstanding contribution to Irish Literature.[11]
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External links
- Use dmy dates from August 2010
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Alumni of University College Dublin
- Aosdána members
- Irish dramatists and playwrights
- Male dramatists and playwrights
- Irish novelists
- People from County Dublin
- Sunday Tribune people
- People educated at Blackrock College
- Irish PEN Award for Literature winners
- Irish male novelists
