Other Llywelyn writing credits include a non-fiction biography, XERXES OF PERSIA for City College of New York; a non-fiction history entitled VIKINGS IN IRELAND for O’Brien Press in Dublin; THE POCKET BOOK OF IRISH REBELS for O’Brien Press; articles on history and archaeology for periodicals, and short stories for a number of anthologies. In 1995 Llywelyn returned to historical fiction with PRIDE OF LIONS, the sequel to LION OF IRELAND, detailing the turbulent lives of Ireland’s royal dynasty in the first half of the eleventh century.

She has just completed a five volume series, THE IRISH CENTURY, which chronicles through the medium of the historical novel the story of Ireland and Irish republicanism in the twentieth century. The first novel, 1916, published by Forge in April of 1998, relates the events surrounding the Easter Rising. 1921 continues the story through the War of Independence and the Civil War. 1949 tells of the de Valera Constitution and Ireland during the Emergency. 1972 relates the events leading up to Bloody Sunday in Derry. The final volume, 1999: The Search for Peace, will be published in 2008.

In addition to a number of other awards over the years, Llywelyn once was the Irish nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1999 she received the ‘Exceptional Celtic Woman of the Year’ award from Celtic Women International. In 2000 she was Guest of Honour at Italcon, the Italian literary conference held in Courmayeur, Italy. In 2003 Llywelyn was one of the five international judges selected for the highly prestigious Dublin IMPAC Literary Award, which, at €100,000, is the world’s richest literary prize for a single work of fiction. Her own Irish Century novel ‘1972’ was nominated for that award in 2007.