Nessa O'Mahony

Nessa O’Mahony is a Dublin-born writer. She has published four books of poetry, the most recent being Her Father’s Daughter (Salmon Poetry 2014). She is a recipient of three literature bursaries from the Arts Council. She was Writer Fellow at the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies in UCD in 2008/09. She produces and presents a monthly podcast for writers called The Attic Sessions. The Branchman (Arlen House 2018) is her debut crime novel. Set in East Galway in 1925, it features Detective Michael Mackey, ex-British Army and Civil War veteran and one of the first members of the Free State’s new elite Special Branch. Mackey is assigned to a Garda Barracks in Ballinasloe and uncovers a plot by subversives to disrupt the fragile peace.