Kate Kerrigan (above) is currently touring Ireland and the UK with her one-woman show ‘Am I Irish Yet? Photo: Alison Laredo
Kate Kerrigan is a New York Times best-selling author who’s currently touring the UK and Ireland with her one-woman show Am I Irish Yet?, which explores her identity as a second-generation Irishwoman who grew up in Thatcher’s Britain and moved to small-town Ireland.
Kerrigan is the nom de plume of Morag Prunty, who left school at 15, trained as a hairdresser, and broke into magazine journalism when she was still a teenager. She went on to become editor of magazines such as Just Seventeen, More!, and Irish Tatler. The writer lives in Killala, Co Mayo, with her artist husband Niall Kerrigan. For tickets to Kerrigan’s show, go to katekerrigan.ie.