Aimée Walsh

Aimée Walsh (born Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish novelist, journalist, and academic. Her debut novel Exile was published in 2024. Walsh is a Columnist and Deputy Editor at the Daily Mirror, where she writes on books, feminism, and culture, and has been shortlisted for the Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards. Walsh also led and presented a three-part investigative documentary series on an online suicide forum for the Daily Mirror YouTube channel.

Early life and education Walsh was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She attended Belfast Royal Academy.

Academic work Walsh's research focuses on Irish literature, gender, nationalism, and cultural history.

Her monograph, Writing Resistance in Northern Ireland, was published by Liverpool University Press in 2024. Critics argued that this study added to the knowledge of both republicanism and feminism in Northern Ireland,

Journalism and commentary Walsh contributes opinion, social commentary, and literary criticism to a range of publications. As of 2026, she works as a Columnist and Deputy Editor at the Daily Mirror. There, she led and presented a three-part investigative documentary series called 'Buy To Die' on an online suicide forum and a legal poison, available on the Daily Mirror YouTube channel. Before joining the Daily Mirror, she wrote regularly for: The Irish Times and RTÉ Culture as a book critic. Walsh has also written for: The Observer; Refinery29; Service95; The Independent; Dublin Review of Books; Stylist Magazine. In 2025, she was shortlisted for the Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards under the "Commentator of the Year (Popular)" category.

Literary career Walsh's debut novel, Exile, was published by John Murray on 23 May 2024. It follows a young Irish woman who is assaulted shortly before leaving moving from Belfast to Liverpool for university. Walsh described it as "a novel primarily about the aftermath of sexual violence, the shifting nature of friendships, and that particular feeling of leaving home at 18". The Irish Examiner called it "a brilliant novel about friendship, consent and displacement from a vibrant new voice."

Selected works Novels Exile (John Murray, 2024) Writing Resistance in Northern Ireland (Liverpool University Press, 2024).