Patricia O’Reilly’s Fiction
In the process of researching and putting together my first novel, Once Upon a Summer, I learned how not to write a novel and, finally, after countless re-writes, I discovered how to. Since then I’ve written another eight novels, and been translated and listed for Historical Novel Society International Award.
My latest title is The Laverys, capturing the sumptuous 20th century artistic world of the charismatic John and Hazel. Others are: Orpen at War, the story of Irish artist William Orpen (1878-1931) at the Somme during WW1. Irish architect and designer, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) – Time & Destiny and The Interview; A Type of Beauty, the story of Kathleen Newton (1854-1882) James Tissot’s muse and mistress; The First Rose of Tralee’ Mary O’Connor (182?-1845) , the inspiration for the annual festival.
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Patricia O’Reilly’s Non-Fiction
Writing is full of surprises. Like prizewinning short stories, dozens of Sunday Miscellanies, radio plays and documentaries, and pieces included in various anthologies, one of the nicest was having Swimming with a Dolphin in the Junior Certificate’s Take the Plunge anthology of English.
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