LIFE:

Brother of the famous Irish singer Sinéad O' Connor, after having graduated he works for the British Nicaragua Solidarity Compaign until 1998. Publishes the novel Cowboys and Indians in 1991 having good success. Then he publishes the tales volume True Believers, 1991 and his second novel Desperadoes, 1993. The salesman, 1998, his third novel, has a very large success of public and critic.
He won two prestigious prizes: The Sunday Tribunes Hennessy Fiction Award and the New Irish Writer of the Year Award.

SUGGESTED WORKS:

The salesman, 1998
In Dublin the nearly fifty years old Billy Sweeney, former-alcoholic, with a divorce behind his back and a disintegrated family works as salesman of parabolic antennas. One day four criminals assault his daughter who goes into coma. Three are captured and brought to trial; the fourth, Donal Quinn, escapes. From that moment Billy begins a desperate search to find Quinn for being able to make justice. But when he captures him a there is an exchange of roles of victim and executioner, showing what they truly have in common: anger, hatred, loneliness and desolation.

OTHER WORKS:

Cowboys and Indians, 1991
The vicissitudes of the rock musician and "first punk of Dublin" Eddie Virago, disembarked to London looking for wealth.

True Believers, 1991
A tales collection whose protagonists are young Irishes, rebellious and rockers, fools and fanatics, punks and poets; people with a far-fetched life who hopes for a job, a travel to London, a beer and a sworn Hail Mary.

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