Events and Appearances


Can We Imagine History? event at No Alibis Bookshop

I’m available for author visits and talks to groups including book clubs, local libraries and writing groups.

I have extensive experience of public speaking to many different kinds of audiences including primary and secondary school children.

Please contact me to discuss details using the contact form.


Mountshannon Arts Festival (June 2025)

FLive, Fermanagh Arts Festival (October 2025)

Upcoming Events


Past Events & media

Dublin Book Festival

October, 2024

Hidden histories with writers Leanne O’Donnell and Henrietta McKervey.

Dublin Festival of History

October 2024, Henrietta Street Tenement Museum

The Grateful Water: writing nineteenth-century Dublin in fiction.

No Alibis Bookshop, Belfast

October 2024

In conversation with historian Elaine Farrell

Dublin Central Library

September 2024

In conversation with historian Elizabeth Kehoe

Ballymun Public Library

June 2024

Author talk with the Murder Book Club.

Oliver Callan on RTE 1

May 2024

Listen back here.

Imagine Belfast Festival

March 2024

Can We Imagine History? Historians and Writers in Conversation

A panel discussion with writers Olivia Fitzsimons, David Toms, Aoife Bhreatnach, Carrie Griffin in No Alibis Bookshop.