Katriona O’Sullivan: Hungry. A Biography of my Body

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Saturday 11 July 2026

2:30 pm

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Hungry: A Biography of my Body is the powerful new memoir from Number One bestselling author Katriona O'Sullivan. It is a beautifully written book that delves into the complexities of body image, self-worth, and the relentless pursuit of acceptance. 

Told with stunning courage and vulnerability, Hungry is both a personal reckoning and a powerful reclaiming of body, voice and self. It is one woman's story – and a rallying cry for every woman who has ever felt she had to shrink to survive. 

Admission: €18

Katriona O’Sullivan’s Hungry is a raw, courageous exploration of survival, identity and the lifelong search for self-acceptance. Raised in a home marked by poverty, addiction and abuse, Katriona defied the odds: from teenage motherhood struggling with her own addictions to becoming a university professor and successful author. But beneath the achievements lay a more private struggle – with her body, her worth, and the unrelenting drive to be enough. In this fiercely honest memoir, she interrogates how trauma, class and gender shape the waywomen see themselves  and how society teaches them to measure their value.  

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Katriona O'Sullivan

Dr Katriona O'Sullivan was born in Coventry to Irish parents, where her upbringing was marked by addiction, poverty, teenage pregnancy and homelessness. In 1998, at 20, she moved from Birmingham...

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