Miriam O’Callaghan: Miriam. Life, Work, Everything

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Friday 10 July 2026

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8:30 pm

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Miriam: Life, Work, Everything includes fascinating insights into a career that has given her a ringside seat to a changing Ireland. Like attending Bobby Sands’ wake even before she was a journalist, and life coming full circle when she championed John Hume to be declared the greatest figure in Irish history. She describes extraordinary debates, important and heart-breaking conversations with people in the eye of a media storm, and how she goes after and prepares for the big interviews – as well as what happens when things go wrong. Miriam also addresses the recent RTÉ controversies that cast a shadow over its high-profile presenters, not least herself.

Miriam O'Callaghan is one of Ireland's best-known and best-loved broadcasters, covering every election, referendum, major controversy and important public event for TV, and hosting an award-winning radio show. Miriam: Life, Work, Everything is her wonderfully engaging, exceptionally honest and personal memoir.

“I started writing this book as an exclusively work memoir but the work and the personal kept overlapping. I don’t know if that’s because I’m a woman or a mother or both, or none of those reasons. I just know that for my story to be authentic and truthful, I couldn’t simply focus on the work side of my life."

Miriam will be in conversation with Cristín Leach.

Admission: €25

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In her absorbing memoir, Miriam shares touching stories from her personal life – from the life-changing impact of losing her beloved sister and father in a matter of months, and the end of her first marriage that same year, to the joys and challenges of bringing eight children into the world and juggling a frenetically busy life (‘give up on perfection’ is her wise advice!).

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Miriam O’Callaghan

Miriam O’Callaghan has been a leading figure in Irish broadcast and current affairs for over 40 years. She has presented RTÉ’s Prime Time since 1996 and hosts the live radio...

Cristín Leach

Cristín Leach is an Irish writer and author of the critically acclaimed divorce-art memoir Negative Space. A Sunday Times Ireland art critic for twenty years, her short fiction, journalism, collaborative and hybrid texts have been...

Miriam O’Callaghan: Miriam. Life, Work, Everything

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Miriam O’Callaghan

Cristín Leach

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