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Author of Nora, Nuala O'Connor is in Galway to launch her new book 'Seaborne' tonight at the Mick Lally Theatre, and she joined Sean Rocks from our Galway studio to tell him about the book.

In Seaborn', Nuala breathes new life into a historical figure – Anne Bonny, the young Irish woman who ran away to sea and became a pirate, and who terrorised the Spanish Main.

Nuala O'Connor

Sean was then joined by Glenn Patterson and Lucy Caldwell. Lucy has just published Openings, and Glenn has published two novellas called Two Summers.

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