Another O’Connor quote: “The first thing that I do with a novel is I try to make it beautiful. There’s enough ugliness in the world already, and part of the job of being a writer is to do ...

A similar magnanimity—though of a more ebullient kind—infuses the work of the Irish writer Joseph O’Connor. His 2019 novel “Shadowplay,” for example, displayed this author’s fondness ...

SHADOWPLAY By Joseph O’Connor. In 1897, a handful of spectators at the Lyceum Theater in London witnessed the improbable birth of “Dracula,” which was presented as a one-off stage reading ...

The author on how Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who died in 1963, became his lamplighter Author Joseph O'Connor. Photo: Mark Condren Every novelist has felt it happen: the coming to life on a page ...

It is unexpected, and rather beautiful, to hear author Joseph O’Connor talk about sacred music with such deep admiration that he playfully refers to himself as a “Gregorian chant geek”.

Rome is perhaps the ideal setting for a historical novel, and the writer Joseph O’Connor explores the city’s mysteries in gripping detail in My Father’s House, the first in a trilogy that ...

Joseph O’Connor can remember the moment when he decided to become a writer. “If I thought about it carefully enough, I could probably come up with the week, certainly the month,” he says ...

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Award-winning author Joseph O’Connor has become involved in a planning row with neighbours over a proposed residential development near his home in south Dublin. The writer and his wife, Anne ...