Professor Ó Broin wins First Prize in Literary Competition for Novel
Bloomfield,
NJ
Bloomfield
Author Wins Major Irish Literary Award
Bloomfield resident Brian Ó Broin has been awarded
first prize in an Irish national literary competition for his novel The Island of Secrets.
Dr. Ó Broin, who lives in Bloomfield with his wife Jo
Schuster and daughters Ána and Fiona, is Associate Professor of Linguistics and
Medieval Literature at William Paterson University. The prize was awarded in
Dublin on the 28th of October.
His prize-winning adventure novel An Eachtra ar Oileán na Rún (The Island of Secrets) is directed at
teenage readers, and is set in a mysterious house on the north side of Dublin
and at an archaeological dig on an island monastery in Ireland's midland lake
district. The protagonists are New York-based teenagers on vacation in Ireland.
The competition, known as An t-Oireachtas ("The Gathering") has been held annually
since 1897. Professor Ó Broin previously won a prize at the same competition in
2002 for his full-length play Na hEorpaigh ("The Europeans") set during a civil war in Ireland.
More about the Oireachtas here: www.antoireachtas.ie
More about Dr. Ó Broin here: https://sites.google.com/site/professorbrianobroin/
Labels: 2015, Brian Ó Broin, Comórtas, Eachtra, Litríocht, Novel, Oireachtas, Úrscéal
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