Interview

“My Fourth Time, We Drowned”

Sally Hayden in Conversation with Malachi O’Doherty

Friday 1 August | 9.45am | £10

Sally Hayden is a highly regarded journalist, award-winning author and photographer. Her debut book, ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route’, which documents the abuses being carried out against refugees trying to reach Europe, won the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, An Post Irish Book of the Year, Il Premio Terzani, and the Michel Déon Prize. She is an international correspondent for the Irish Times, currently based in Lebanon, reporting mostly across Africa and the Middle East, on issues including migration, conflict and human rights. She is also an adjunct professor at the UCD Sutherland School of Law. 

“One of the most important testaments of this awful time in life’s history. It is both heartbreaking and stoic. I cry reading any page of it. Sally Hayden is a young and brilliant journalist.” — Edna O’Brien

“This is a vital book for anyone who wants to feel what it means to be human in the 21st century.” — Fintan O’Toole

Malachi O’Doherty is a writer and journalist based in Northern Ireland. He has published twelve books so far: works of memoir, social and political history and fiction. His main areas of interest are Northern Ireland, religion and terrorism.