Sorcha Pollak

Sorcha Pollak is a writer and journalist with The Irish Times.  In her current work she has a specific focus on migration and immigrant communities in Ireland.

She is the author of ‘New to the Parish: Stories of Love, War and Adventure from Ireland’s Immigrants’. Published in 2018 to great acclaim it is currently under option to be adapted for TV.

‘Ireland has been transformed in recent years by the arrival of hopeful settlers from many parts of the world . They are not just “immigrants ”. They are people with all the richness , diversity and particularity of humanity. Sorcha Pollak is a great listener who tells those individual stories with humour, sympathy , vividness and insight. This uplifting book is both a great read and an essential document of contemporary Ireland .’  Fintan O’Toole

Before joining The Irish Times, Sorcha worked for the Guardian newspaper and TIME Magazine in London. She has also lived in the Peruvian city of Iquitos, Delhi, Seville and Paris. She has a BA in European Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an MSc in Media, Communication and Development from the London School of Economics.