About

Fionnuala Cassidy is a bestselling author, scriptwriter, creative writing facilitator, editor and custom poet. She has had three books published and has written scripts for staged plays. She has also penned short stories and a children’s story for various anthologies. 

 

​In 2009 her first novel Anyone for Seconds? (written under the pen name Fiona Cassidy), reached No 6 in the Irish Paperback Fiction charts. Her following publications Anyone for Me? and Anyone for Secrets? were both top 20 successes.

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Fionnuala is commissioned to work on funded creative writing projects both sides of the border, organises her own courses at various venues and is an experienced editor. She mentors individuals and helps local interest groups and committees to structure material, articles and memoirs in preparation for going to print.
 
She works with community groups, councils, health trusts, arts organisations, women’s circles, historical societies, rural networks and charities. She also delivers poetry workshops in schools and engages in reminiscence activities with older people that often involve history and folklore through storytelling. 

Her classes can be tailored to suit a particular theme, be purely recreational to pursue a new skill or adapted to showcase the therapeutic benefits of writing to challenge and address trauma.

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Fionnuala is a mother and baby homes survivor and adoptee and delivers talks that relay her journey and how writing has helped her to heal. Her employment background is within mental health and supporting the vulnerable and she believes that every negative situation carries a positive from which we can learn and grow.

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Fionnuala lives in Galbally, Co. Tyrone and passionately believes in the recording of old stories lest they be lost. She is mother to Colm, Úna, Áine and Orán and she enjoys walking, reading and exploring new places, being at one with nature and learning about our ancient past.

 

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When it’s dark look for a star

and when it rains look for a rainbow.

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