Sally Hayden – This Is Also a Love Story
Date: Saturday 30th May 2026
Venue: Listowel Arms Hotel Main Room
Time: 3.30 PM
This Is Also a Love Story
From the Orwell Prize-winning author, This Is Also a Love Story chronicles both the astonishing acts of bravery that love inspires, as well as the touchingly ordinary connections people make in extraordinary times. Her book is a powerful account of human resilience in an era defined by crisis—war, displacement, climate collapse and inequality—drawing on Hayden’s reporting from some of the darkest moments of our time.
Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist, photographer, author and an international correspondent for the?Irish Times.?Her first book,?My Fourth Time, We Drowned won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, the An Post Irish Book of the Year Award, the Michel Déon Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.