Martina Devlin's Biography

Martina Devlin is an author and journalist. Her books include the number one best-seller Banksters, a co-authored account of the Irish banking collapse written with RTE's David Murphy. Other work includes Ship of Dreams, a novel about the Titanic – inspired by a family connection with the disaster – and a memoir, The Hollow Heart. She started writing fiction after winning a Hennessy Literary Award for her first short story in the 1996, and has been shortlisted twice for the Irish Book of the Year awards.

A former Fleet Street journalist, she writes weekly columns for the Irish Independent and the Sunday World Magazine, and contributes essays to RTE Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany. In 2009 she was writer in residence at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco. Martina was born in Omagh in the North of Ireland and lives near the sea in Dublin.

Martina is also a columnist for the Irish Independent and the Sunday World magazine.

Portrait of Martina Devlin

A very glamorous portrait of me by the author and artist Sharon Owens. It hangs in my study but when the wrinkles start mounting I'll transfer it to my attic.

Interviews with Martina Devlin

There are three interviews with Martina currently available on the website.

• Interview 1 : Sunday Independent
• Interview 2 : About Venus Reborn
• Interview 3 : Me & My Suitcase (Belfast Telegraph interview)