John O’Donnell Presents Mr Hoo & Other Stories With Niall MacMonagle
Date: Friday 29th May 2026
Venue: Plaza Hall
Time: 2 PM
Presenting Mr Hoo & Other Stories
Mr Hoo & Other Stories is the latest short story collection from award-winning writer John O’Donnell. Loneliness, vengeance, sorrow, and desire are among the themes featuring in these compelling stories of schemers and survivors: a gullible bird-lover, a woman seeking revenge against an author, a brooding survivor of the Titanic, a young murderer trying to cheat the gallows. Here are almost-winners and not-quite losers, a grieving father and a desperate mother, an unhappy judge, and a troubled client. Love and loss, redemption and remorse, yearning and heartbreak; in clear, incisive language these exhilarating stories movingly examine the human condition. John O’Donnell has won major awards including the Hennessy Award for Emerging Fiction and the Cúirt New Writing Prize. He has also published four poetry collections and has received several poetry prizes.