Diarmuid Johnson
Presented by Limerick Literary Festival in Honour of Kate O’Brien
Poet, novelist and musician Diarmuid Johnson spent his early years in Galway and has since enjoyed a rich and varied career in several European countries.
His most recent book, Conamara agus Tíortha Eile (Leabhar Breac 2025), is a prismatic work featuring poems in Irish, English. French and other languages, including his native Welsh.
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Diarmuid Johnson
He is author of the acclaimed Tara Trilogy, a retelling of the origin tales of Ireland. An ambitious forthcoming novel An Cláirseoir (Leabhar Breac 2025) deals with the circumstances surrounding the Norman conquest of Ireland in 1169.
Diarmuid Johnson currently works and winters in Brussels, spending warmer days in his woodside retreat in Brittany where he reads, writes and plays the flute.
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