Joe Joyce

Writer and Journalist

Joe Joyce is an Irish writer, playwright and journalist whose latest works includes a history of the Guinness family and brewery, The Guinnesses: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Most Successful Family, and a play about James Joyce and Oliver St John Gogarty, The Tower. He is also the author of two thrillers Off the Record and The Trigger Man, published in London and New York, and co-author with Peter Murtagh of The Boss, a seminal book on Irish politics and one of the best-selling non-fiction books published in Ireland. (Please click on cover photos for more information.)

He has worked for a number of national and international newspapers as a staff reporter and freelance journalist, primarily The Irish Times in Dublin and The Guardian in London. He has also worked for Reuters news agency and written occasionally for a wide selection of other newspapers. He is currently producing a daily column for The Irish Times from its archives going back to the paper’s foundation in 1859.