Felicity Hayes-McCoy has been a professional writer in broadcast and other media for nearly forty years. Born in Dublin in 1954, she now divides her life and work between London and the West Kerry Gaeltacht. Her non-fiction books include The House on an Irish Hillside, (Hodder & Stoughton 2013), Enough Is Plenty – The Year On The Dingle Peninsula, (The Collins Press 2015) and A Woven Silence: Memory, History and Remembrance (The Collins Press 2015) which maps her own family’s stories onto the history of the Irish state, centering on lost memories of her grandmother’s cousin Marion Stokes, one of Ennsicorthy’s 1916 insurgents.