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Open House Bangor (with Brian Rowan), 12.30pm, August 23, 2026 Edinburgh International Book Festival (with Roxani Krystalli and Esa Aldegheri), 5,15pm, August 28, 2026 Maynooth Bookshop (with Katriona O’Sullivan), 6.30pm September 22, 2026 Caper bookshop, Oxford, 7.30pm, September 23, 2026 Wigtown Book Festival, 4.30pm, September 25, 2026 Politics and Prose, Washington DC, 3pm, October 4, […]
Selected praise: “In this original and heart-warming book, Sally Hayden chronicles both the astonishing acts of bravery that love inspires, as well as the touchingly ordinary connections people make in extraordinary times. By finding beauty amidst ugliness, she finds a way of making our fractured world whole again.” — Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor for Channel 4 […]
Thirty-four years ago, on this exact date, the Berlin Wall fell. 1989 was also the year I was born. It was a time, I believe, when there was huge optimism about the future of Europe and what the EU itself could stand for. Today, what I see is a reversal of that hope. I see […]
‘En de vierde keer zonken we’ (Dutch), published August 28, 2023, with Nieuw Amsterdam ‘E La Quarta Volta Siamo Annegati’ (Italian), published September 12, 2023, with Bollati Boringhieri ‘Cuando Lo Intente Por Cuarta Vez, Nos Ahogamos’ (Spanish), published February 5, 2024, with Capitán Swing ‘Bienvenue aux enfers’ (French), published May 2024, with Buchet Chastel ‘Za […]
Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Winner, An Post Irish Book of the Year. Winner of the 2022 Michel Déon Prize. Winner of 2022 non-fiction book of the year at the Irish Book Awards. Winner of 2024 Il Premio Terzani. Winner of 2025 Il Premio Inge Feltrinelli. Finalist for the 2022 Baillie Gifford […]
‘”Cruel” trafficker accused of torturing refugees found guilty in Ethiopia’, the Guardian, Apr 30, 2021 Event with German newspaper Taz, Apr 24, 2021 ‘Denmark is wrong. Syria is anything but safe for returning refugees’, the Irish Times, Apr 24, 2021 ‘Sierra Leone prepares for another Ebola outbreak’, the Irish Times, April 19, 2021 ‘”No other […]
‘How Did One of North Africa’s Biggest Human Traffickers Escape Prison?’, VICE, Feb 23, 2021 A radio report on the Dominic Ongwen ICC verdict, World Report, RTE Radio One, Feb 7, 2021 (programme starts from 12.50) ‘Lukodi massacre: “They should pay us because we lost so many people”’, the Irish Times, Feb 5, 2021 ‘In […]
Irish Times correspondents pick their moment of the year, World View podcast, Dec 23, 2020 ‘Kony’s children: The former child soldiers of Uganda’, the Irish Times, Nov 28, 2020 Speaking at Disruption Lab conference, ‘Borders of Fear’, in Berlin, Nov 27-28 Interview in Il Mitte, Nov 14, 2020 UCD talk, Nov 12, 2020 Human smugglers […]
‘UN peacekeepers withdraw from South Sudan civilian protection sites’, the Irish Times, Oct 29, 2020 ‘The Irish Times claims largest number of entries on journalism awards shortlist’, Oct 20, 2020 ‘Libyan refugees: “We are in hell and darkness”‘, Atmos, Oct 9, 2020 Radio piece on child marriage rising during the pandemic, RTE World Report, Oct […]
Radio piece on an increase in poaching in Uganda’s national parks, World Report, RTE Radio One, Aug 30, 2020 (programme from around 12 minutes in) ‘Museveni deploys day of prayer in fight against coronavirus’, the Irish Times, Aug 30, 2020 ‘”They will not open the airports”: Covid-19’s heavy toll on Ugandan tourism’, the Irish Times, […]
