These days, Moriarty is busy with the literary festival, which started in 2017 as an Anglo-American collaboration. It was a recipe from his father.įour years later, they married. “Mena wooed me by cooking a flank steak for me with a salsa crudo di pomodoro,” she recalled. And finally there was a “flex” dinner where Hanna showed off his cooking skills. But the Sunday of three days later is still celebrated today as “Exhilaration Sunday,” a perfect day for a new relationship. That was on November 15, and I never left.” But she recalls how he said, “Before you leave, let me take you for a drink. She told Mena Mark Hanna right off the bat that she was thinking of moving.

And then she answered a “superlike” request from Tinder. By 2015, she got itchy to move and was working on packing for Rome or London. In between, she honed editorial skills and became a specialist in branding and developing web content, working with companies all over Europe to help them present their offerings. In 2013, she earned the degree after completing a thesis on the concept of play in the work of dramatist Samuel Beckett. Two years later, she moved to Berlin where she enrolled in the Free University of Berlin to work on a master’s degree in English literature. She landed in Paris, where she worked for a photojournalism agency. It’s a bright room just waiting for another relaxed, highbrow conversation - or a deep dive into a gossipy talk about the Real Housewives.īorn in Dublin in 1986, Moriarty left Trinity College Dublin in 2008 with a degree in English literature and film studies.

If you invited Berliners into your home, they might wonder what you wanted to get out of the meeting.Īn open, modern kitchen is off of a comfortable den where toys peek in corners and a dog nervously patrols around a stranger before settling.

She explained Germans often are private about home life with strangers. It’s not like Germany at all - it’s not transactional.” “One of the friends told me that if someone asks you to do something, just say yes. “I didn’t know much about Charleston, but I had two friends who had lived in Charleston,” she said. Moriarty, who moved here from Berlin with her husband Mena Mark Hanna in October 2021 with a baby named Hugo (she says she couldn’t have predicted he’d grow up here with that name), is executive director of November’s Charleston Literary Festival. “People went out of their way immediately to make us feel welcome - to open up their homes for dinner,” she said. You often don’t know whether you’re going to have a seated dinner with several people or a relaxed, intimate time with a couple of new friends. Irish native Sarah Moriarty has found that getting invited to someone’s home for a gathering in Charleston is like a box of chocolates.

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