Profile: Marie O'Connell

About This Author

Marie O’Connell is an Irish author of short stories and press articles. She’s the mother of three young adults, but she’s also been a pastoral worker, a teacher, an administrator, a receptionist, a choir member, a dancer around the house, Irish youth representative to Europe, she ran her own charity and is a voice for women. She does her best writing in cafes, on park benches, on any beach, and at home in her community of Killaloe/Ballina, Co. Clare. Marie loves to act, tell stories as well as write. She loved her time as a mature student where she graduated with a BA, a PG dip, an MA and is pursuing a PHD. She is a community volunteer and activist, always supporting those who need a voice. In this book she transports her readers to a place where brave trail-blazers guide communities to a new reality. Engaging communities to take responsibility where women and men are resilient, and compassion is alive and well.