Alannah Hopkin is a writer and journalist. Her books include travel writing, two novels and a story collection, The Dogs of Inishere (Dalkey Archive Press).  In 2020 she was the Frank O’Connor Short Story Fellow at the Munster Literature Centre and University College Cork where she taught on the Creative Writing M.A. In 2021 she published an acclaimed memoir, A Very Strange Man and in 2023 her book about St Patrick and the Irish people was reissued as Patrick: from Patron Saint to Modern Influencer by New Island Books, Dublin. She reviews regularly for the Irish Examiner.

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