Beginner’s pluck: Dublin-born writer Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin

'Ordinary Saints' is pretty perfect. It’s informative, original, heartfelt, very real, and stunningly written

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin studied politics at SOAS before working for a political blog and doing some freelance journalism.

An intense child, Niamh always loved writing.

“I scribbled lines before I could write,” she says, “and at eight, I wrote poems and performed them at my parent’s parties, but I lost confidence in my late teens.”