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Sorcha Pollak Editor

Sorcha Pollak is a journalist with The Irish Times and writes the popular New to the Parish series. Her first book was New to the Parish: Stories of Love, War and Adventure from Ireland’s Immigrants (2018). She has also worked for the Guardian and TIME Magazine. She has a BA in European Studies from Trinity and an MSc in Media, Communications and Development from the London School of Economics. "Katie Dickson studied English Literature and Philosophy in Trinity from 2000 to 2005 with a sabbatical year as Deputy President of the
Students’ Union. She was also the Manager of Trinity FM and Editor of the University Record. She has a Masters in Library and Information Studies from UCD and is the school librarian at St Dominic’s College, Cabra. She sits on the committees of the Library Association of Ireland’s Youth Library Group and the School Library Association of the Republic of Ireland."