Malachi O'Doherty

Malachi O’Doherty was born in Muff, County Donegal, in 1951 and grew up in west Belfast. He has made his living mostly as a freelance journalist and broadcaster, appearing on the BBC’s Sunday Sequence and Talkback programmes, and writing regularly for the Belfast Telegraph. Now Writer in Residence at Queen’s University Belfast, he is the author of a number of books including I Was a Teenage Catholic (2003), The Telling Year (2007) and Under His Roof (2009), a series of vignettes about his father.