The final event in this year's School of English Reading Series takes place on Tuesday, April 17, and will feature Pen/Faulkner prize-winning author Joseph O'Neill and poet Leanne O'Sullivan, who is a valued member of UCC's creative writing faculty.

Joseph O'Neill is a Cork-born, New York-based novelist and memoirist, the author of four novels, including Netherland, one of the seminal post-9/11 narratives. His most recent novel, The Dog, is set in the high-flying world of Dubai and he has a collection of short stories forthcoming.

Leanne O'Sullivan is a Cork poet, author of four collections.  Her most recent, A Quarter of an Hour, which was published in February, charts the recovery process of her husband from a coma.