J Michael O'Reilly is a writer and teacher living in Dublin. As well as Easy Ulysses, he is the author of a number of novels and a stage play on the first meeting in Paris between Samuel Beckett and James Joyce called Sam et Jim a la Coupole. He is also a script writer, and his movie script on the life of Thomas De Quincey - the world's first celebrity drug addict and author of the iconic Confessions of an English Opium Eater - was praised by Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, who said, "I enjoyed it immensely; it kept me amused during lockdown."
Under the pen-name Thomas O'Donnell
Don't Mess With History if you Want to Meet Mozart: A Comic-Musical-Sex-Fantasy:
A music student takes a hilarious time-travelling romp through 200 years of history to meet Mozart and find out why he wrote a lot a lot of smutty letters. On the way he creates havoc in the lives of everyone from Queen Victoria to Beethoven, which he's going to have to fix on the way back.