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Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty celebrated at special event

Killarney’s connection with World War 2 humanitarian Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty was celebrated at a very special evening in The Gleneagle INEC Club.
Acclaimed novelist, Joseph O’Connor in conversation with Philip King broadcaster - musician, producer and founder of Other Voices series. My Father’s House is inspired by the extraordinary story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty and how he and a band of activists saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Rome.
Joseph read a number of passages from the book, along with live performances from soprano Sharon Lyons and countertenor Nils Wanderer.
Dublin-born Joseph O’Connor is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and broadcaster. He is the author of ten novels including Star of the Sea, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book novel 2011), Shadowplay (Easons An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2019) and the international bestseller My Father’s House (January 2023). Among his awards are the Prix Zepter for European Novel of the Year, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, an American Library Association Award, the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature and the American Ireland Funds Literary Award 2022. His work has been translated into forty languages.
In 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. Twice-Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey has written, ‘There are few living writers who can take us back in time so assuredly, through such gorgeous sentences. Joseph O’Connor is a wonder.’