Patricia O’Reilly lives in Dublin. She writes Historical Biographical Fiction, favouring Irish personalities. She has come the route of freelance journalism, radio documentaries, plays and talks, as well as non-fiction and contemporary titles. She works privately with emerging writers, and is involved with the Irish Writers’ Centre’s National Mentoring Programme.
Her latest novel THE LAVERYS is based on the lives of the charismatic John and Hazel Lavery, and their sumptuous world of art, politics and passion.
Orpen at War, tells of Irish artist William Orpen (1878-1931) at the Somme during World War I as an official British war artist.
The First Rose of Tralee is the story of Mary O’Connor (182?-1845) the servant girl who stole the heart of the master of West Villa, and she is the inspiration for the annual Rose of Tralee International Festival
Patricia is an expert on Irish designer Eileen Gray. The Interview, set in Paris in 1972, centres on Eileen Gray’s meeting with rising star of Fleet Street, Bruce Chatwin; and Time & Destiny is also about Eileen Gray;
A Type of Beauty the story of Kathleen Newton, long-listed for Historical Novel Society Award, tells of her love affair with French artist James Tissot; Once Upon A Summer is based on a true story set during the summer of 1959 in County Kerry.
Felicity’s Wedding, a contemporary novel was book club choice in Germany. Her short stories are published in magazines and various anthologies.
Her non-fiction titles are: Writing for Success; Working Mothers; Earning Your Living from Home; Writing for the Market and Dying with Love.
In her time Patricia has been a freelance feature writer for newspapers ad magazines, creator of radio documentaries, plays and broadcast scores of Sunday Miscellany pieces.