His previous short story collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
Deidre Madden has won various awards, such as the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hennessy Award.
Ó Ceallaigh is recipient of the 2006 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, for his collection Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse.
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