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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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”.

Joseph O’Connor’s novel is based on the true story of a group in Vatican City whose daring exploits during World War II saved lives and changed outcomes.

T HE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR Joseph O’Connor and several of his neighbours in south Dublin have lost a planning battle over a new housing development at the end of a narrow cul-de-sac of Victorian ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR Joseph O’Connor and several of his neighbours in south Dublin have lost a planning battle over a new housing development at the end of a narrow cul-de-sac of Victorian ...