Ghost Story - An Interview With Joseph O'Connor

The bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Redemption Falls Joseph O’Connor spoke me for AU at the Central Hotel in Dublin about the final part of his historical trilogy Ghost Light and how he came to be inspired to write the work of fiction based on one of Ireland’s legendary playwrights John Millington Synge and the woman he fell in love with.



Ghost Light is a tale of joy, sadness and love. Set in the early 20th century and jumping every few chapters to a single day in 1952, the novel is primarily a celebration of a little know love affair between one of Ireland’s best known playwrights J.M. Synge and an actress from the Liberties Molly Allgood. On this fateful day the reader is introduced to quite a sorry character of the faded actress whose glory days of her loves and career have passed her and, through her memories on this day, we are given a glimpse of this tempestuous, passionate and secret love affair she had with Synge.