Profile: Geraldine O'Connell Cusack

About This Author

I began my career in the Bilingual/Bicultural Curriculum Development Department of New York's City's Department of Education and then moved on to work in a simiar capacity on Native American reservations in Florida and Alaska. From there, I continued my work with development aid programmes in South America and Africa. I am the author of five books - three geared to an adult readership and two for young readers. 'Children Of The Far-Flung' is a memoir of my family's life in the South Bronx and our move back to Ireland in the 1960s. 'Winds The Road North' moves with my family to northern Tanzania where I worked as an Irish Aid worker, and 'The Limit of Words and Silence' is a novel based on the lives of three generations of of one family in northern Chile - from the 1920s up to and including the Pinochet regime. 'Spirits of Wood Wood Quay' and 'Wrecker's Cove' invite young readers into the riotous adventures a group of typical Dublin teenagers who step back in time to the days before Ipods and Iphones. Their adventures might be described as anything but typical. All of my stories are built around the people and the cultures I experienced and loved. My hope is that readers find themselves transported back to those peoples and those places - and that they can find some common cause and friendship with them.