


Emily Hourican
Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
Emily Hourican is the author of nine bestselling novels and one book of non-fiction. Her most recent novel, A Kennedy Affair, was published in October 2024.
Her first novel, The Privileged, was published in 2016 and was short-listed for the Best Popular Fiction Award at the 2016 Irish Book Awards. In 2019 she began writing historical fiction, and has since published five acclaimed, best-selling historical novels set around the Guinness and Kennedy families. She has been a finalist in the Irish Book Awards three times.
Emily’s first children’s book, aimed at readers aged 9-11, will be published by Scholastic in March 2026.
She is currently developing a six-part TV series based on her novel The Outsider with Treasure Films, and a feature film with director Neasa Hardiman, both projects are supported by Screen Ireland.
She is also an award-winning editor and journalist with the Sunday Independent, Ireland’s biggest-selling newspaper.
Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
Emily Hourican is the author of nine bestselling novels and one book of non-fiction. Her most recent novel, A Kennedy Affair, was published in October 2024.
Her first novel, The Privileged, was published in 2016 and was short-listed for the Best Popular Fiction Award at the 2016 Irish Book Awards. In 2019 she began writing historical fiction, and has since published five acclaimed, best-selling historical novels set around the Guinness and Kennedy families. She has been a finalist in the Irish Book Awards three times.
Emily’s first children’s book, aimed at readers aged 9-11, will be published by Scholastic in March 2026.
She is currently developing a six-part TV series based on her novel The Outsider with Treasure Films, and a feature film with director Neasa Hardiman, both projects are supported by Screen Ireland.
She is also an award-winning editor and journalist with the Sunday Independent, Ireland’s biggest-selling newspaper.