The Hounds of the Morrigan (63 page)

Pat O’Shea was born in Galway in the west of Ireland in 1931. She said it was a good place to grow up—close to the sea, to Lough Corrib, and the unspoilt countryside. The old people that she knew then were very kind, had a lot of time for children, and she heard many old stories from them.

Pat came to England in 1947 for a holiday and never left, living in Manchester, with her partner and close to her son, until she died in 2007.
The Hounds of the Morrigan
was her first book and has been loved by children the world over since it was published in 1985.

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