{"bio": "Patricia Byrne is a Mayo-born writer who lives in Limerick, Ireland.\r\n\r\nShe writes narrative nonfiction and personal essays and is a graduate of the NUI Galway writer programme.\r\n\r\nHer memoir essay *Milk Bottles in Limerick* was named one of the Notable Essays of the Year in *The Best American Essays 2017*.\r\n\r\nHer latest historical nonfiction book *The Preacher and the Prelate: The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland* is published by Merrion Press (April 2018).\r\n\r\n*The Veiled Woman of Achill: Island Outrage and a Playboy Drama* was published by The Collins Press in 2012:", "name": "Patricia Byrne", "links": [{"url": "https://patriciabyrneauthor.com/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Patricia Byrne's website"}], "personal_name": "Byrne, Patricia", "title": "CSJ", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2012-07-18T14:45:48.016261"}, "photos": [9033063], "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-10-28T17:12:36.566695"}, "latest_revision": 5, "key": "/authors/OL7153483A", "birth_date": "1950", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "revision": 5}