New memoir · 2026

Caitríona Lally - Irish Author

Award-winning writer crafting intimate fiction and speculative novels explored through lyrical prose, diverse characters, and uncanny turns of phrase.

Portrait of Caitríona Lally beside a stone wall

Biography

Caitriona Lally has published two novels, Eggshells (2015) and Wunderland (2021). She won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2018 and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction in 2019. She was the inaugural Rooney Writer Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub in 2022, and was one of the 2024 An Post Book Awards 20 Best New Irish Writers. Her first memoir, Home Economics, was recently published by New Island.