Bridget Hourican is a journalist and historian who has written for the Irish Times, Time Out and The Dubliner. She is editor of Straight from the Heart: Irish Love Letters and a contributor to the Dictionary of Irish Biography. Her biography of the Romantic poet, James Clarence Mangan, Finding Mangan, the Lives and Afterlives of Ireland’s National Poet, was published to critical acclaim in August 2024 and shortlisted for an Irish Book Award.
Bridget Hourican
