Ruth Gilligan

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name = Ruth Gilligan
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birthplace = Dublin, Ireland
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nationality = Ireland
period = 2006 - Present
occupation = Novelist Actress
genre = Romance, sentimental, chick lit
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notableworks = Played Laura Halpin in Fair City
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Ruth Gilligan is an Irish writer and actress. She played Laura Halpin in Fair City, and is the author of the novel Forget and Somewhere in Between. She attanded St Andrews College in Bootherstown Dublin. She acheived 8 A1 grades in her leaving certificate examinations (the Irish version of the A Levels or Baccalaureat). [cite book |title=Forget |last= Gilligan |first=Ruth |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2006 |publisher=Hodder Headline Ireland |location=Dublin |isbn=0340920882 |pages=279 p. ; 24 cm. ]

References

Newspaper articles

*cite news |first=Mick |last=Heaney |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Ireland: Teenage kickstart. With the publication of her first novel, Forget, the Fair City actress Ruth Gilligan looks set to be a face to remember, writes |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article605006.ece |work=The Sunday Times |publisher= |date=August 13, 2006 |accessdate=2008-07-23
*cite news |first=Mick |last=Heaney |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The leisure principle. The big names of Irish literature have largely chosen the simple life over hard graft |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article1264588.ece |work=The Sunday Times |publisher= |date=December 31, 2006 |accessdate=2008-07-23

Television interviews

*cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Tubridy Tonight: Ruth Gilligan |url=http://www.rte.ie/tv/tubridytonight/20060923.html |work=RTÉ Television
publisher= |date= 23 September 2006 |accessdate=2008-07-23