Conor O'Callaghan

Conor O'Callaghan was born in Newry in Northern Ireland, and grew up ten miles away in Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland. He has published five collections of poems. He has also published a comic prose memoir about Ireland's 2002 World Cup debacle, Red Mist: Roy Keane and Ireland's World Cup Civil War (Bloomsbury, 2004), and the acclaimed gothic novel Nothing on Earth (Transworld/Doubleday, 2016). He lived for several years in the US, and now divides his time between Sheffield and Dublin.

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