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Ruth Gilligan was born on 1988 in Dublin, Ireland, is an Irish writer, journalist and university lecturer. Discover Ruth Gilligan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 36 years old?

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1988

Ruth Gilligan (born 12 March 1988) is an Irish writer, journalist and university lecturer, born in Dublin.

Gilligan's father was an accountant and her mother a speech therapist.

Her brother David is ten years her senior, and the family hail from Blackrock, where she grew up.

Gilligan studied acting at the Betty Ann Norton Theatre School in Dublin from the age of six, and later secured theatre, TV commercial and short film roles.

Her first professional role was at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, at the age of 11.

At second level, Gilligan attended St. Andrew's College, Booterstown, and while there, from age 12 to age 16, she played Laura Halpin in the Irish soap opera Fair City, and wrote her first novel, Forget, as a Transition Year secondary school project.

2006

After reading and editing by successful novelist Patricia Scanlan, and extensive rewriting, the novel was published in 2006 in the UK and Ireland, reaching number one on the Irish Bestsellers' List, making her the youngest person in Ireland ever to have done so.

Achieving eight Higher-Level A1 grades in her Leaving Certificate examinations, Gilligan continued her studies at Cambridge University achieving a double First Class Honours degree in English literature from Gonville and Caius College.

While in second year there she published her second novel, Somewhere in Between, which was also translated into German.

2008

They met in 2008, became engaged in 2016, and married in County Wicklow in 2017.

They now live in Highbury, London.

2009

In January 2009, Gilligan was announced as the youngest ever recipient of an O'Reilly Foundation Scholarship to pursue advanced studies in English literature.

Her third book was launched in Blackrock, County Dublin in August 2009, following which she discussed her work, scholarship and GB Olympic fencing boyfriend Alex O'Connell, to whom the book is dedicated, in a live TV interview.

From 2009-2010 she attended Yale University, earning an MA in English literature.

2010

From 2010-2011 she was enrolled on the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia.

2014

In 2014 she earned her PhD in English from the University of Exeter.

2016

Having set aside a new novel, her fourth published book, Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan, is based around the history of Irish Jews, and was published by Atlantic Books in July 2016 (UK / Ireland).

It received very favourable reviews, including numerous comparisons to James Joyce and Colum McCann.

2017

In 2017, it was published in the US by Tin House, and in Israel by Penn Israel.

2020

Gilligan mentioned work on a follow-up book with links to the Beef Tribunal, and in 2020 her new novel, The Butchers (also published under the title The Butchers' Blessing), was published.

It went on to win the 2021 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.

Gilligan took up a post as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Birmingham, and as of 2020, is a senior lecturer there.

She reviews books for the Times Literary Supplement, Guardian, LA Review of Books and Irish Independent, where she was a columnist for a number of years.

Gilligan also works with Colum McCann's storytelling charity Narrative 4 - an international organisation devoted to fostering radical empathy amongst diverse teens - for whom she has organised a number of projects.

Gilligan is married to lawyer and former Olympic fencer on the Great Britain team, Alex O'Connell.