Hungry with Katriona O’Sullivan and Pauline Scanlon

What are we hungry for — food, love, belonging, success, or simply the feeling that we are enough? In her new memoir Hungry, Katriona O’Sullivan turns her attention to the body, asking how class, gender and trauma shape the way women see themselves and their place in the world. Following the extraordinary success of Poor, Katriona joins Dingle’s Pauline Scanlon for a candid conversation about identity, self-worth, the hunger to belong and what it takes to finally feel at home in your own skin.

Katriona O’Sullivan is a bestselling author, academic and powerful advocate for educational equality. Her first memoir, Poor, became a number-one bestseller and won both Biography of the Year and the Listeners’ Choice Award at the 2023 An Post Irish Book Awards. In Hungry: A Biography of My Body, she writes with characteristic candour about achievement, food, relationships, body image and the lifelong pressure to fit in. It is a deeply personal exploration of how the circumstances into which we are born can continue to shape how we value ourselves long after those circumstances have changed.

Katriona will be joined by Dingle singer, broadcaster and activist Pauline Scanlon, whose own work has explored women’s lives, family history and inherited silence. A presenter for TG4 and the BBC and a founding member of FairPlé, Pauline brings warmth, curiosity and a deeply personal understanding of the forces that shape women’s stories.

This conversation will explore the forces that shape how we see ourselves — class, family, gender, ambition and the longing to belong. Honest, thoughtful and deeply human, it promises to be a conversation that stays with you long after you leave the room.

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