CV: Jo O’Donoghue

Education

  • University College Cork: BA English and French, First-class Honours; BA History, First-class Honours

  • École de Français Modern, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

  • University of Dublin, Trinity College, M. Litt in Modern English: Religion and Belief in the Novels of Brian Moore

  • UCD Dublin: BA Irish, First-class Honours

  • NUI Maynooth: Postgraduate Diploma, Translation and Editing (Irish, First-class Honours)

  • NUI Maynooth, Lár-Ionad na Gaeilge: Diploma in the Teaching of Irish to Adults

Employment

  • 2010 to date: proprietor and publisher Londubh Books

  • Previously: Poolbeg Press, Mercier Press, Currach Press

  • Corpus development manager for Foras na Gaeilge’s New Irish Dictionary project

Selected Publications

  • The Way We Were: The Sisters of St Louis in England 1912-2024 (2024).

  • Two young adult novels in Irish, Taithí Oibre (Cois Life, 2019) and Triúr Amigos (Cois Life, 2020).

  • The OSI Puzzle Book (with Enda MacMahon and Jamie Wright, Hachette, 2019).

  • New Horizons: The Sisters of St Louis in a Changing World (Londubh Books, 2011).

  • Brewer’s Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable (with Sean McMahon, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004).

  • Brian Moore: A Critical Study (Gill and Macmillan, 1990).

Languages

  • Bilingual standard written and spoken Irish

  • Excellent written and spoken French

  • Very good written and spoken Spanish

Other Competencies

  • Writing, rewriting, ghostwriting, editing, research, translation

  • Excellent communication, organisation, people-management and project-management skills

  • IT skills (Microsoft Office, InDesign, usual word processing, spreadsheet, email and internet applications)