Mia Gallagher

Mia Gallagher
Born	1967/68 Dublin, Ireland
Language	English Latin Spanish [1]
Nationality	Irish
Years active	2006–present
Notable works	HellFire

Mia Gallagher (born 1967/68) is an Irish writer and actress. ^{[2] [3]}

Early life

Gallagher was born in 1967/68 in Dublin. ^[4]

Career

Gallagher's first novel HellFire won the Irish Tatler Women of the Year Literature Award in 2007. Anne Gildea described it as "the relentless inner monologue of protagonist Lucy Dolan, inner-city junkie, just out of prison, retelling the story of herself to make sense of her raddled journey from womb to now. The Dublin it evokes is a dirty gothic heroin- and poverty-addled pit, webbed over with multiple sorry stories, streaked through with sinister myth," comparing Gallagher to Flann O'Brien. ^[5]

Gallagher received several Literature Bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland. ^{[6] [7]} Her second novel, Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland, was released in 2016, to mixed reviews. She also released a short story collection, Shift, in 2018. ^[8]

In 2018 she was elected to Aosdána. ^[9]

Gallagher is also an actress.

Works

Short stories

• Shift (2019) ^[10]
• Dubliners (2022, with Mario Sughi) ^[10]

Novels

• HellFire (2006)
• Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland ^[11]

References

1. "The Art of Rewriting with Mia Gallagher". Irish Writers Centre.
2. "Mia Gallagher: A decade spent making strange lost worlds". The Irish Times.
3. "Mia Gallagher". www.ricorso.net.
4. "Irish author Mia Gallagher on greying gracefully: 'At the moment, going grey is almost like a crime for women'". Irish Independent. 25 February 2015.
5. "In praise of Mia Gallagher, by Anne Gildea". The Irish Times.
6. "Top Tips for Writers by Mia Gallagher". Writing.ie.
7. Watch: Sebastian Barry and Mia Gallagher in conversation
8. Leonard, Sue (10 October 2018). "Mia Gallagher". Sue Leonard.
9. "General Assembly". Aosdána.
10. Kehoe, Paddy (30 July 2018). "Reviewed: Shift by Mia Gallagher" – via www.rte.ie.
11. https://www.newisland.ie/mia-gallaghernm1143716

External links

• Mia Gallagher at IMDb