Deirdre Purcell
Deirdre Purcell is an Irish author. Purcell is a former Abbey Theatre actress, who has played as Christine opposite Donal McCann in Drama at Inish, Miss Frost in the stage adaptation of The Ginger Man, and Pegeen Mike in The Playboy of the Western World. Purcell is also a former TV and press journalist. She has been awarded The Benson & Hedges and Cross awards for journalism. She lived in Beara Peninsula in West Cork. Since October 2009, she has presented All About the Music on RTÉ Lyric FM. She is a former presenter of "It Says in the Papers" on Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1.Novels
- A Place of Stones
- That Childhood Country
- Falling for a Dancer
- Ashes of Roses
- Francey
- Roses After Rain
- Sky
- Love Like Hate Adore
- Billy and Jesus Are Off to Barcelona
- Entertaining Ambrose
- Has Anyone Here Seen Larry?
- Marble Gardens
- Last Summer in Arcadia
- Children of Eve
- Tell Me Your Secret
- The secret
- Somewhere in Between
- Jesus and Billy Are Off to Barcelona
- Days We Remember
Series contributed to
- Finbar's Hotel
- Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel
Non fiction
- Diamonds and Holes in My Shoes
- Follow Me Down to Dublin
- Aengus Finucane: A Life
