Billy O'Callaghan: Digging into the past

It’s already been quite a year for Billy O’Callaghan. In January, he placed second in the Costa Short Story Awards with ‘The Boatman’. 

In May his novel The Dead House appeared in bookshops, and on June 10 the Cork City Libraries launched this year’s One City, One Book initiative encouraging everyone to read his short-story collection The Things We Lose, the Things We Leave Behind.

Talking about his most recent work, O’Callaghan warns that “the fact that The Dead House is a ghost story might surprise people who are familiar with my short stories, which tend towards staunch realism, but those who actually know me will know of my lifelong fondness for the genre”.