Eilis O'Hanlon

Éilis O'Hanlon (born 1965) is an Irish novelist and journalist. She writes for the Sunday Independent. She co-authored, with her husband Ian McConnel, four novels under the pen name Ingrid Black.^[1] Her book, The Dead, published in 2003, was honoured with the Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel. O'Hanlon's work appears in The Field Day Anthology of Irish Women's Writing.

Views[]

O'Hanlon has been described is one of Sinn Féin's 'sharpest critics'.^[2]

She has also written of her opposition to emigration from Ireland, frequently arguing that this has damaged and continues to damage the nation,^[3] and has expressed disapproval of transgender people partaking in gender specific sports and roles.^[4]

Family[]

Eilis is the daughter of Sam and Tess (née Cahill) O'Hanlon, and her uncle was the late Joe Cahill, a senior figure in the Irish Republican Army from the 1940s onwards. Her elder sister was the late Provisional Irish Republican Army member and Sinn Féin politician, Siobhán O'Hanlon. The two sisters remained estranged at the time of Siobhán's death from breast cancer, due to Eilis's criticism of Sinn Féin.

Published works[]

• The Dead, Minotaur Books, 2004; ISBN 978-0-312-32632-6
• The Dark Eye, Headline Paperbacks, 2004; ISBN 978-0-7553-0704-3
• The Judas Heart, Penguin Books, 2007; ISBN 978-0-14-102530-8
• Circle Of The Dead, Penguin Books, 2008; ISBN 978-0-14-102531-5

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