13 April,
Panel /
Wired Your Own Way with Nuala O’Connor, Naoise Dolan and Niamh Garvey
Sunday, 13 April 2025, 2:30pm
The Mick Lally Theatre / €16.00 | €14.00
Book NowNew Island Books launches Wired Your Own Way, an anthology showcasing the diversity of the Irish autistic experience. Join editor Niamh Garvey and two featured authors, Nuala O’Connor and Naoise Dolan, for an insightful conversation on the making of this brilliant essay collection, the impact of an autism diagnosis, and more.
Niamh found out she was autistic at 34 and has written several books on the topic for both children and adults. She aims to spread valuable up-to-date information about autism and help destigmatize it.
Nuala’s deeply immersive novels often explore the lives of women on a quest to find out who they are. Her most recent is Seaborne, a retelling of the life of Irish pirate Anne Bonny. Since her diagnosis she has been on her own journey of growth and self-discovery.
Naoise is the author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple. Her novels offer a sharp, funny portrayal of contemporary relationships and explore class, gender dynamics and queerness.
Nuala O’Connor is a novelist, short story writer and poet, and lives in Co. Galway with her family. Nuala holds a BA in Irish from Trinity College Dublin and a Masters in Translation Studies (Irish/English) from Dublin City University. She is the author of five previous novels, including Nora (New Island & Harper Perennial, 2021), Becoming Belle (2018) and Miss Emily (2015), and six short story collections, her most recent being Joyride to Jupiter (New Island, 2017). She has won many prizes for her short fiction, including the Francis MacManus Award, the James Joyce Quarterly Fiction Contest and the UK’s Short Fiction Journal Prize.
Nuala’s work has also been nominated for numerous prizes including the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the International Dublin Literary Award. Nora was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, the Dalkey Novel of the Year Award, RTÉ Audience Choice Award and named as a Top 10 2021 historical novel by the New York Times. Nora was also the One Dublin One Book choice for 2022. Nuala curated the 2022 exhibition at MoLI, ‘—Love, Says Bloom’, on the Joyce family, for #Ulysses100. She is editor-in-chief at flash e-zine Splonk.
Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin. She has published two novels, Exciting Times (2020) and The Happy Couple (2023). Her work has been translated into over thirty languages, and has been shortlisted and longlisted for prizes including the Women’s Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Polari Prize.
Niamh Garvey is an autistic author living in Cork, Ireland. She has a Diploma in Autism Studies from University College Cork, and is also a registered general nurse. She writes about autism and neurodiversity.
