Joseph O Connor
There is more than one author with this name
Joseph O’Connor was born in Dublin. He is the author of the novels
Cowboys and Indians
(short-listed for the Whitbread Prize),
Desperadoes
,
The Salesman
,
Inishowen
,
Star of the Sea
and
Redemption Falls
, as well as a number of bestselling works of non-fiction.
He was recently voted ‘Irish Writer of the Decade’ by the readers of Hot Press magazine. He broadcasts a popular weekly radio diary on RTE’s Drivetime With Mary Wilson and writes regularly for The Guardian Review and The Sunday Independent. In 2009 he was the Harman Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Baruch College, the City University of New York.
“the country of the poor can be abandoned no longer. For i dread what is growing in that country now. I fear we shall reap a venomous crop”
Joseph O Connor
“all of our trials are caused by restlessness, the refusal to accept the fact that limitations exist”
Joseph O Connor
“If any class deserves to be protected and assisted by the government, it is the class who are banished from their native land in search of the bare means of subsistence" Charles dickens, american notes”
Joseph O Connor