Patricia Byrne
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Patricia Byrne is a Mayo-born writer who lives in Limerick, Ireland.
She writes narrative nonfiction and personal essays and is a graduate of the NUI Galway writer programme.
Her memoir essay Milk Bottles in Limerick was named one of the Notable Essays of the Year in The Best American Essays 2017.
Her latest historical nonfiction book The Preacher and the Prelate: The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland is published by Merrion Press (April 2018).
The Veiled Woman of Achill: Island Outrage and a Playboy Drama was published by The Collins Press in 2012: