Simon O’Connor

Simon O’Connor is a composer and the first Director of the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), a collaboration between University College Dublin and the National Library of Ireland. Since 2019, MoLI has won the Business to Arts Best Philanthropic Support of the Arts Award 2021, Red Dot Best Exhibition Design 2020, IDEA Exhibition Design Gold Award 2021 & shortlisted for the European Mies Van Der Rohe Architecture Award 2022 and the European Museum of the Year Awards 2022. It won the European Heritage Award/Europa Nostra Award in the category Citizens’ Engagement and Awareness Raising in 2023 and was also recognised with the Grand Prix. Simon was the founding curator of the Little Museum of Dublin, a winner of the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award in 2016.