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Irish prose and poetry writer Ciara Broderick is our 24/25 Writer in Residence.
Ciara's work has been published in several Irish and international journals and in 2025 her first novel was selected as a winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair. During her four-week residency in London, Ciara will be based at UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities and engage closely with UCL academics and students, participate in various related events, and pursue her own writing.
Ciara Broderick said:
[This] is an excellent opportunity to represent the Irish language on the Map. While Irish is a recognised European language, it is often excluded from the conversation on languages of the continent. It is a particular passion of mine to build on the work of others in raising the profile of Irish in popular culture and showing the nuance and beauty of the Hiberno-English vernacular as it exists today. The work I intend to create [during the Residency] is based on the theme of “Poverty and Plenty” and is a work of short fiction loosely connected to a novel-length project I am currently working on. Inspired by the experiences of my family the short story will focus on the multi-generational experiences of Irish immigrants coming to London and how that is formed and shaped by the major social and cultural events happening around them at the time. The story will highlight that, for immigrants, all is fiction.