{"id":9863,"date":"2021-02-17T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T11:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=9863"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T11:06:08","slug":"conor-ocallaghan-we-are-not-in-the-world-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/conor-ocallaghan-we-are-not-in-the-world-irish-times\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We Are Not in the World’ – Conor O’Callaghan discusses new novel with The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor O\u2019Callaghan<\/a>, Senior Lecturer and MA Writing \/ MA Creative Writing Course Leader was interviewed this week by The Irish Times<\/a> about his new novel We Are Not in the World<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

In We Are Not in the World<\/em>, O\u2019Callaghan\u2019s compelling and profoundly moving second novel, a middle-aged Irishman journeys in a borrowed HGV from the north of England to the south of France with his damaged daughter as a stowaway in his cab and a lorry-load of regrets trailing behind him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conor O\u2019Callaghan, Senior Lecturer and MA Writing \/ MA Creative Writing Course Leader was interviewed this week by The Irish Times about his new novel We Are Not in the World. In We Are Not in the World, O\u2019Callaghan\u2019s compelling and profoundly moving second novel, a middle-aged Irishman journeys in a borrowed HGV from the north of England to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[1674,1552,1011,1676,1675],"class_list":["post-9863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-conor-ocallaghan","tag-hrc","tag-ireland","tag-novel","tag-we-are-not-in-the-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-2z5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13046,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/phd-student-wins-prestigious-ploughshares-short-story-prize\/","url_meta":{"origin":9863,"position":0},"title":"PhD Student Wins Prestigious Ploughshares Short Story Prize","author":"lh1112","date":"23\/04\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"We are thrilled to announce that Molly Aitken, current SHU PhD student in Creative Writing, has won the prestigious Alice Hoffman Prize For Fiction\u00a02024\u00a0for her story 'Thresholds', published in the 2023 Spring edition of Ploughshares. 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