Marita Conlon-McKenna

Bestselling Irish children's and women's fiction writer

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Under The Hawthorn Tree 30 Year Anniversary – May 2020





Dubray StoryFest at Home with Marita Conlon-McKenna May 2020





The Ryan Tubridy Show: Marita Conlon-McKenna -The Hungry Road
by RTÉ Radio Player: Latest Podcast Jan 2020





The Irish Times Women’s Podcast
Ep 374 Marita Conlon McKenna & Anything You Can Do, I Can Do…Almost Jan 2020





Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna stage adaptation – 2018





Marita talks about ‘Under the Hawthorn Tree’ 2013





Latest News

  • Launch of Treasures of the Strokestown Famine Archive virtual exhibit.
  •                     Archives to Arts 
  • Death of my Publisher Michael O’Brien
  • Beautiful West Cork
  •                      St Patrick’s Day Festival 2022
  •                          World Book Day 2022
  • Shirley Hughes – Writer and Illustrator
  • ‘GiftABook’ 
  • Jack B Yeats ‘Painting and Memory’ Exhibition
  • Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum has closed in U.S
  • Launch of ‘Heroes of Ireland’s Great Hunger’
  • Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas 2021
  • Cruinniu na nOg 2021
  • Famine Summer School 2021
  • Abbey Theatre – A New Direction


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


Copyright © 2013-2020
Marita Conlon-McKenna.
All rights reserved.

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