Patricia Falvey is the bestselling author of five books. Patricia was born in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland. She was raised in Northern Ireland and England and immigrated alone to the United States at the age of twenty.
Patricia’s professional career was in financial consulting. She served as Managing Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC, where she led a national tax consulting practice. She earned national recognition as a tax expert for the insurance industry and was a frequent speaker at industry conferences. She is a CPA and holds a BS in Business from Suffolk University (Boston, MA) and an MS in Taxation from the University of Hartford (West Hartford, CT).
Despite her success in this field, Patricia always dreamed of becoming a writer. Late in her career, after an interesting series of events, she took a leap of faith and resigned from PwC to devote herself full-time to writing. With the publication of her first novel, THE YELLOW HOUSE in 2010, Patricia finally realized her dream.
A resident of Dallas, Patricia is a frequent speaker at Irish cultural events around the country, as well as book clubs, libraries, women’s groups and educational institutions. She also has led numerous creative writing workshops. When she is not writing, traveling or researching, Patricia enjoys attending the theater and other cultural events in Dallas.
THE FAMINE ORPHANS, Patricia’s fifth novel, is a triumphant story that follows one of the thousands of young Irish women shipped to Australia after the Famine as part of the Earl Grey scheme, whose indomitable bravery in an exotic, danger-laden land helped shape a new country. They survived Ireland’s Great Hunger to build a new society in untamed Australia in this powerful historical fiction novel. Click here to order!
Patricia Falvey is the bestselling author of five books. Patricia was born in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland. She was raised in Northern Ireland and England and immigrated alone to the United States at the age of twenty.
Patricia’s professional career was in financial consulting. She served as Managing Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC, where she led a national tax consulting practice. She earned national recognition as a tax expert for the insurance industry and was a frequent speaker at industry conferences. She is a CPA and holds a BS in Business from Suffolk University (Boston, MA) and an MS in Taxation from the University of Hartford (West Hartford, CT).
Despite her success in this field, Patricia always dreamed of becoming a writer. Late in her career, after an interesting series of events, she took a leap of faith and resigned from PwC to devote herself full-time to writing. With the publication of her first novel, THE YELLOW HOUSE in 2010, Patricia finally realized her dream.
THE YELLOW HOUSE is set in the author’s native Northern Ireland. The story was inspired by tales told by her grandmother of political unrest in Ulster in the early 20th century. It was followed by her second novel, THE LINEN QUEEN, which tells the story of a young mill worker living in Ulster at the outbreak of World War II. In writing both of these novels, Patricia discovered a particular passion for Ireland and its history.
Her third novel, THE GIRLS OF ENNISMORE, is set in her father’s birthplace, County Mayo, in the west of Ireland. It covers the period 1900 to 1918 and tells the story of two girls from vastly different backgrounds whose friendship is tested by the upheavals of the status quo brought on by the onset of WWI and the 1916 Easter Rebellion.
In her fourth novel, THE TITANIC SISTERS, Irish siblings Delia and Nora Sweeney board the Titanic with hopes of starting anew in America, only for the ship’s sinking to irrevocably alter their fates. Delia finds herself working as a maid in New York, while Nora assumes a new identity in a wealthy household, moving to Texas during the oil boom, and leading to lives filled with secrets and challenges. The novel is a poignant exploration of family, resilience, and the pursuit of dreams amidst historical upheaval.
THE FAMINE ORPHANS, Patricia’s fifth novel, is a triumphant story that follows one of the thousands of young Irish women shipped to Australia after the Famine as part of the Earl Grey scheme, whose indomitable bravery in an exotic, danger-laden land helped shape a new country. They survived Ireland’s Great Hunger to build a new society in untamed Australia in this powerful historical fiction novel. To be released in the U.S. on May 27, 2025. Click to pre-order HERE!
A resident of Dallas, Patricia is a frequent speaker at Irish cultural events around the country, as well as book clubs, libraries, women’s groups and educational institutions. She also has led numerous creative writing workshops. When she is not writing, traveling or researching, Patricia enjoys attending the theater and other cultural events in Dallas.
Patricia Falvey is the bestselling Irish historical fiction author of five books.