Author: Patricia Byrne
Title: CSJ
Born: 1950
Bio: Patricia Byrne is a Mayo-born writer who lives in Limerick, Ireland.

She writes narrative nonfiction and personal essays and is a graduate of the NUI Galway writer programme.

Her memoir essay *Milk Bottles in Limerick* was named one of the Notable Essays of the Year in *The Best American Essays 2017*.

Her latest historical nonfiction book *The Preacher and the Prelate: The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland* is published by Merrion Press (April 2018).

*The Veiled Woman of Achill: Island Outrage and a Playboy Drama* was published by The Collins Press in 2012: