Marita Conlon-McKenna

Bestselling Irish children's and women's fiction writer

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Here are some useful resources for anyone reading A Deep Dark Wood in school. It will help students with their homework and projects and teachers too!

http://www.obrien.ie/resources/DeepDark.pdf

http://www.obrien.ie/resources/RBFSInDeepDarkWood.pdf

Latest News

  • ‘Under the Hawthorn Tree’ for the first time in Ireland- on stage at The MAC Theatre in Belfast.
  • ‘Under the Hawthorn Tree’ opens in Belfast’s Mac Theatre today
  • ‘Under the Hawthorn Tree’ on Stage at the MAC Theatre in Belfast
  • Helen Dillon’s Beautiful New Garden
  • ‘Children and the Great Hunger in Ireland’ Book Launch
  • Brilliant Readers in Strabane
  • Listowel Writer’s Festival
  • ‘Coming Home – Art and the Great Hunger’ Exhibition at Dublin Castle
  • Dingle Feile na Bealtaine
  • International Literature Festival Dublin
  • Coming Home: Art & The Great Hunger at Dublin Castle
  • Bold Girls
  • The Big Interview
  • The Irish PEN Dinner and Award 2018
  • Frederic W. Burton at The National Gallery


How to contact Marita

For children's books:
O'Brien Press
Simon & Schuster
Source Books

For women's fiction:
Transworld

For rights:
Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency


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Marita Conlon-McKenna.
All rights reserved.

Under the Hawthorn Tree book cover
Wildflower Girl book cover
Fields of Home book cover
Marita at event for 25th annniversary of Under the Hawthorn Tree
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