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THE FIRST IRISH WITCH TRIAL

Her Kind is based on the first witchcraft trial in Ireland and the British Isles. It was a landmark case and one close to my heart, as I grew up hearing tales of Alice Kyteler, the 'witch of Kilkenny.'  It's often called The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyteler.

Of course, like most tales it was far more complicated and shocking than the myth surrounding it. I went on to spend many years researching the case, walking the streets and lanes of Kilkenny City, and following in the steps of a woman far less mentioned in relation to the story, who is actually the most central - Petronilla de Media. 

A beautiful UK edition was published by Penguin in 2019, and went on to be nominated for the EU Prize for Literature. I am so happy that a new revised edition of Her Kind is now available for US readers, and to be able to hand her over to you. So, it's back to the writing shed to finish my third novel - please feel free to leave any comments or questions. Happy July, writers and readers x  

ABOUT NIAMH

 Niamh Boyce

Niamh Boyce is a multi-award winning Irish Writer based in midlands Ireland, her novels often explore the lives of suppressed and silenced women. Her Kind was nominated for the EU Prize for Literature. Her first novel The Herbalist was an Irish Book Award winner. Niamh also won The Hennessy Literary and was awarded Irish Writer of the Year.  

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Publication Week News

Greetings from Rescue Remedy Season, also known as publication week :) 

Amazing news... 

Her Kind was shortlisted by the Irish jury for the EU Prize for Literature. It was nominated with Jan Carson’s The Fire Starters, Catholic Boy by Rosemary Jenkinson, The Watch House by Bernie McGill. 

Review... I was thrilled to read Anna Carey's review in the Irish Times. You spend years, in this case five, working alone on a book, putting your heart into it - sending it out in the world can be a pretty terrifying experience. So it was wonderful to read ... '14th century Kilkenny is so evocative and atmospheric the reader can almost taste the honeycombs in Petronelle’s carefully tended hives and feel the heavy animal pelts that line Alice’s secret chamber...' the full review can be read Here.

Irish Times Interview....

I was interviewed by Rosita Boland in Athy last week - 'historically, it was always women who were deemed to be witches, and considered to be dangerous personages, especially when they showed any evidence of independence ... the full interview can be read Here

The Irish Times

Thank you readers, and future readers, booksellers and fellow writers, journalists and reviewers - if you didn't love books, the world would be an arid, lonely place.