The book was among six titles competing for the accolade, all of which were category winners at the recent 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards – O’Connor’s book had scooped The Last Word Listeners’ Choice Award. The winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year award was decided by a judging panel that was chaired by Paul Howard, an author, screenwriter, and newspaper columnist best known as the creator of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly. Howard remarked that choosing a Book of the Year “was the toughest of tough tasks” and that each of the six books were “outstanding in their own class”.
Author: Diarmuid Pepper
Published at: 2025-12-11 23:15:35
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