Martina Devlin

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Martina Devlin
Born Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
OccupationWriter
NationalityIrish
GenreHistorical, Non-fiction, Speculative

Martina Devlin is a novelist and newspaper columnist from Northern Ireland. [1]

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Biography

Devlin was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. She worked in Fleet Street for seven years before moving to Dublin. In England, she studied journalism, followed by a degree in English Literature at the University of London (Birkbeck College). After working as a journalist for the Press Association, Devlin went to Trinity College, Dublin where she completed an MPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature followed by a PhD in literary practice, also at Trinity College. [2] Afterwards, she combined working as a columnist for the Irish Independent in Dublin with writing novels. [3] [4] Devlin does not write by genre. Four of her books are historical fiction and another is speculative fiction. [5]

She has written of her unsuccessful efforts at IVF and the toll it took on her marriage. [6] In 2012 she married RTE journalist David Murphy. [7]

A former vice-chairperson of the Irish Writers Centre, she holds a diploma in company direction from the Institute of Directors. In the wake of her novel, The House Where It Happened, she campaigned for eight years for a plaque to commemorate the Islandmagee witches, and one was erected in 2023.

Awards

Devlin has won numerous awards for both her writing and journalism.

She has been shortlisted three times for the Irish Book of the Year awards. [8] Her non-fiction account of the Irish financial collapse, Banksters, co-authored with David Murphy, topped the best seller list for eight weeks. [9]

Bibliography

Fiction

Theatre work includes Call Me Madame, a political satire featuring Countess Markievicz. Another play, Curves of Emotion, about James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, was written to commission to mark the Ulysses centenary in 2022. She has taught Irish literature for Trinity College Dublin, Boston University and Palacky University in the Czech Republic.

Non-fiction

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