Pia Helfferich (@schreibberatung.bsky.social)

Hamnet’s Maggie O’Farrell: ‘I turned down an OBE because I didn’t want British Empire as part of my name’ After the ‘bonkers’ Oscars, the Co Derry-born author of Hamnet is poised to publish Land, a novel inspired by her own family history in post-Famine Ireland https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2026/05/31/hamnets-maggie-ofarrell-i-turned-down-an-obe-because-i-didnt-want-british-empire-as-part-of-my-name/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=Facebook_Image&fbclid=IwdGRzaASKFJpjbGNrBIoRZ2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHlE9QkYXpZEi2gqq8vrOv2rAJ8gQU2DnMgb4tGxTfbVNr4QGSH-T6qA0adUc_aem_fXht8FHIE7iNTgAZ7ASvOg&sfnsn=scwspmo