Storyteller Felicity Hayes-McCoy: ‘I realised that terrible things can happen if people don’t pay attention to what’s going on around them’
Felicity Hayes-McCoy was born in Dublin. She studied Irish, English and history at UCD before moving to England in the 1970s to train as an actress. Her work as a writer ranges from TV and radio drama and documentary, to screenplays, music theatre, memoir and children’s books. Her USA Today best selling Finfarran novels are widely read on both sides of the Atlantic, and in Australia, and have been translated into six languages. She and her opera director husband, Wilf Judd, live in the west Kerry Gaeltacht and in Bermondsey, London. Her standalone novel The Keepsake Quilters, has just been published by Hachette Books Ireland.