Katriona O'Sullivan

Changes with Annie Macmanus

Annie Macmanus

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The day after St Patrick’s day, we welcome an astonishing Irish woman who epitomises change; Katriona O’Sullivan’s incredible no.1 bestselling memoir ‘Poor’ has dominated Irish bestseller lists for 10 months. The book documents her life - from living in poverty raised by parents who were heroin addicts, becoming pregnant and homeless at 15 to changing everything and completing a PHD at Trinity College in Dublin after a life changing encounter. Today Katriona is a psychologist and award winning lecturer at Maynooth University challenging barriers to education for working class and disadvantaged children. As Barry Keoghan of Saltburn says, ‘Katriona is a legend’.

Even now ‘Poor’ is at number one in the Irish Non Fiction bestseller charts and won Biography of the Year and the Listeners' Choice Award, at the Irish Book Awards 2023.

In this unforgettable episode, the now “Dr.” Katriona O’Sullivan, talks about her life in poverty, including her relationship with her parents, myths and privilege, how she changed her life and the people who were fundamental to that happening, who she thinks holds the keys to change and ultimately why we must help children to flourish, have hope and opportunities.

Poor by Katriona O’Sullivan is out in paperback 18th April and is published by Penguin. You can pre order it here:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/452168/poor-by-osullivan-katriona/9780241996768

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Changes, it's Annie here.
0:08.0	Lovely to have you with us on the day after St. Patrick's Day.
0:11.4	I hope you maybe had a chance to go to an Irish pub and experience
0:15.7	some great Irish traditional music, maybe have a little sip of creamy Guinness and clinker
0:20.9	glass and say, slauncher. I did all of those things this weekend and it's
0:26.0	great to be here post-Paddy's day with an astonishing Irish guest for you on changes.
0:34.0	Dr. Katrina O'Sullivan is a psychologist and award-winning lecturer at Mayneuth University,
0:40.0	but she is most known for the fact that she wrote a memoir which came out last year
0:45.1	Entitled Poor It has been pretty much the biggest book in Ireland all year
0:50.6	Number one on the non-fiction bestseller list in Ireland, almost since it came out in May last year.
0:56.3	I'm checking this week, 10 months later, it's still number one.
1:00.2	It's won biography of the year and the listener's choice award at the Irish Book Awards,
1:04.0	and even Barry Cion of Saltburn called it powerful, saying Katrina.
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