Michael O’Sullivan

Michael O’Sullivan’s last work was Patrick Leigh Fermor: Noble Encounters, in which he revisits the trajectory of one section of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s famous pedestrian excursion from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople meeting many of the old Hungarian families Leigh Fermor stayed with during his famous 1934 visit to Hungary and Transylvania. He is the author of bestselling biographies of Mary Robinson, Ireland’s first woman president and later UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. He has also written biographies of the founding father of the modern Irish state, Seán Lemass and of the playwright Brendan Behan.