Brian O'Hare, MA, Ph.D., is a retired assistant director of a large regional college of further and higher education. He is married, has three children, ten grandchildren, one great grandchild. He plays golf three times a week off a ten handicap and does a lot of voluntary work. Any writing he has previously done was academic...very much restricted to a specific readership. Several articles in educational journals were followed by a number of book-length reports for the Dept. of Education (N.I) and the University of Ulster. He had a liver disease since childhood which resulted in his taking early retirement a number of years ago. In 2002 he had a liver transplant but is strong and healthy now. He continued to do academic writing well into his retirement, e.g., book-length study for The University of Ulster/YouthAid:  The Excluded Adolescent (pub. U.U., 2004) and followed that with a memoir about his liver transplant, dealing with the physical, emotional and spiritual experiences that came from that period in his life (A Spiritual Odyssey, published by Columba Press, Dublin, 2005.  Also published on Kindle, December 2013.) This was followed  by the award winning The Miracle Ship, (non-fiction) published on both on Kindle and in paperbck format by Crimson Cloak Publishing. He has also written a number of award winning fiction novels (See below) Fallen Men, a story of three priests and The Doom Murders, a detective story set in Belfast, The 11.05 Murders, a sequel to The Doom Murders).  These are currently published both on Kindle and paperback format by Crimson Cloak Publishing.   

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Four of Brian O'hare's books have won several awards between them:

The Miracle Ship:New Apple 2015 Top Medalist Award for Excellence in the Religion Non-fiction category.

The Doom Murders, Special Award for the Mystery Fiction category in the 2015 New Apple Awards for Excellence; Bronze Medalist in the Mystery Fiction category of the Readers Favourite 2015 Awards; and the Amazon IDB Award in 2014. The 11.05 Murders has also won solo honours in the 2016 New Apple Awards for Excellence.

Fallen Men has won Top Medalist Honours in the Contemporary Fiction section of the 2015 New Apple Awards; and the IDB Award in 2015