Events

Events

 

A Spring Series of Public Readings - 2019

Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and WORD Centre for Creative Writing proudly present  FIVE IRISH WRITERS A Spring Series of Public Readings by five of the most exciting contemporary Irish Writers All welcome.

Tuesday 19 February, Humanity Manse, 6.00pm

 Billy O'Callaghan is the author of three short story collections: In Exile and In Too Deep (Mercier Press), and The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind (New Island Books), which was honoured with a Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Award and  selected as Cork's "One City, One Book" for 2017. His first novel, The Dead House, was published by Brandon Books/O'Brien Press, and in the U.S. by Arcade in 2018.  A recipient of the 2013 Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Award for Short Story of the Year, and a 2010 Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Award for Literature, his story, "The Boatman" was  shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Short Story Award.

 

Tuesday 23 April, Humanity Manse, 6.00pm

 

Miriam Gamble was born in Brussels and grew up in Belfast. She is the author of three collections of poetry, all published by Bloodaxe Books: Pirate Music, The Squirrels Are Dead, and What Planet. She has been the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and a Somerset Maugham Award, and lectures in creative writing at Edinburgh University.

Conor O’Callaghan was born in Newry and is the author of five collections of poetry, all with Gallery Press, including most recently Live Streaming.  He is also the author of Roy Keane and the Football Civil War, and a novel, Nothing On Earth, and lectures at Sheffield Hallam University.

Tuesday 30 April, Humanity Manse, 6.00pm

Emilie Pine is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction volume Notes to Self (Tramp Press). She is also an associate professor at University College Dublin, and the director of the Irish Memory Network, as well as editor of the Irish University Review.

 

Saturday 25 May as Part of WORD @May Festival - time and venue TBC

Novelist, playwright, screenwriter and librettist Bernard MacLaverty has also written fiction for children and five collections of short stories. Among his many acclaimed works are Cal, Grace Notes and, most recently, Midwinter Break in 2017. Born in Belfast in 1942, Bernard  moved to Scotland in the 1970s, was  much-loved as Aberdeen University's Writer-in-Residence 1983-85 and now lives in Glasgow.