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Richard O'Rawe was born in Belfast. His first book, Blanketmen, published in 2005, was a political book about the 1981 IRA/INLA hunger strike and was an Irish best-seller. His second book, Afterlives, was published in 2010. His third book, In the Name of the Son, a biography of his life-long friend, Gerry Conlon (of the Guildford Four), was published in 2017. The first two novels of his 'Ructions O'Hare' series, Northern Heist and Goering's Gold, were published in 2018 and 2022 respectively. He is currently working on his third novel of this series. His sixth book, Stakeknife's Dirty War, another bestseller, was published in 2023.
This current book Witch Hunt is the first collaboration with his daughter, Bernadette.
Bernadette O'Rawe is a graduate of Queen's University Belfast, having attained a BA (Hons) in Criminology and sociology and an LLM, Masters of Law in Human Rights and Criminal Justice. |