Journalist
The Guardian
Mary O’Hara was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was educated at St. Louise’s College, Falls Road, Belfast, The College of Charleston, South Carolina, Magdalene College Cambridge University and the University of Sheffield, England. She has been a journalist for over a decade – almost all of it with The Guardian reporting in the UK and the US and has won numerous prestigious awards for her writing including Mind Journalist of the Year and an Alistair Cooke Fulbright Scholarship for which she carried out academic research in 2010 at UC Berkeley, California. She is co-author of the feature film screenplay, Once We Were Old and has worked intermittently in television and in radio and for a number of magazines. Most recently she wrote the foreword to Danny Dorling’s book, Fair Play, published in October 2011. She has just finished writing her first novel.