Begotten not made

Awarded The Eric Hoffer Award, USA 2023

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Begotten Not Made is a fairy tale for the 21st century where the mystery of blind faith is explored and the magic of belief is restored.

Brother Scully met Sister Claire only once. It was back in 1970 - the night Dana won the Eurovision Song Contest. Every single morning since their first and only encounter, with a flicker of a light bulb. Sister Claire has sent a coded message of love to Brother Scully.

This Christmas Eve morn, for the first time in almost fifty years, no light shines out from Sister Claire's bedroom window. And so begins this tale of a very real, yet unrealised love ...

We're lucky to have walking among us Conal Creedon. The brilliance was self-evident and undeniable. The audience was in raptures over the beauty of his sentences and rapier-like wit. He writes about the human condition in ways that find you deep down where you just have to laugh and weep. Read this author and your faith will be restored in both literature and life. Alan Kaufmann (2016) Books include: Jew Boy, Drunken Angel, The Outlaw Bible Of American Poetry

As written by Cónal Creedon, such moments resound with wince-inducing authenticity before they are eclipsed by an inspirational twist - words soar like a bracing breeze off the River Lee.

The New York Times - Andy Webster (2013)

Mr Creedon's words are enough to create a world that is at once comic and dramatic, poetic and musical. The New York Times Rachel Saltz (2009)