O'Connor, Ahmed was born in Limerick in 1983 to an Irish mother from County Clare and a Sudanese–Egyptian father who settled in Ireland in the late 1970s. He studied history at University College Cork and archival studies at the University of Glasgow, and worked for a decade in museum collections across Ireland and the UK. His essays on memory, migration, and the Irish landscape have appeared in The Dublin Review and the Irish Times. He lives in Galway, where he teaches community writing workshops and volunteers with a local oral-history project.
