Tom Phelan
About Tom Phelan
Tom Phelan is the author of the acclaimed novels Nailer, The Canal Bridge, In the Season of the Daisies, Iscariot, and Derrycloney.
He has also written for Newsday, the Irish Echo, Independent.ie, and the Recorder, the journal of the American Irish Historical Society. He is a 2008-2009 Fellow of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation.
Born and raised on a farm in Strahard, Mountmellick, County Laois, in the Irish midlands, Phelan now makes his home in New York.
Latest News
Just Published...Nailer
Ireland, 2007. In the midland counties of Laois and Offaly, two former members of the Order of Saint Kieran, which once ran Dachadoo Industrial School for boys, are murdered within weeks of each other, their bodies found nailed to the floor.
In his gripping new novel Nailer, Tom Phelan once again brings the artistry and courage of his discerning eye to a disturbing and emotionally loaded subject. More about Nailer...
Upcoming Talks
Thursday, March 29, 9:30 - 11 a.m.
Talk/Reading
Irish Studies Program
Davison Hall (south campus), room 104
Hofstra University
Hempstead Turnpike
Hempstead, NY
Saturday, May 26, 8 p.m.
"The Writing Life: An Evening with Tom Phelan"
Ballaghboy Lodge Farm
Ballinafad, Sligo, Ireland
+353 71 9666116 (reservation needed)
ballaghboylodgefarm@eircom.net
www.ballaghboylodgefarm.com
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