Nature, mortality and the divine in new Irish literature
LITERATURE
Nature, mortality and the divine in new Irish literature
Niamh MacCabe & Bethany Dawson in conversation with Elske Rahill
Mon 06 July | 6pm
Event Details
Times & Dates:
Mon 06 July | 6pm
Duration:
70 minutes
Event Categories:
Literature
Admission:
€14
Age Suitability:
18+
Venue:
Yeats Building, Hyde Bridge
Access Note:
Low steps (pavement
& entrance). Ramp available. No
accessible toilet on site; available
nearby.
In conversation with novelist Elske Rahill, authors Niamh MacCabe and Bethany Dawson discuss the themes and forms of their fiction with a particular focus on questions of realism and the unreal when writing the natural world.
Four Night Seas is a collection of stories from award-winning author Niamh MacCabe featuring characters navigating emotional or existential thresholds, grieving, seeking meaning or reconciling with the past.
Distinctly, wondrously Irish … Mac Cabe is a master of the short story - Lucy Sweeney Byrne, Irish Times
Arrestingly precise and beautifully worked, this is a fine collection of short stories - Louise Kennedy
Familiar is a powerful new novel by Bethany Joy Dawson that enters the complex territories of restoration, family and inheritance. The novel unfolds the interwoven stories of three generations of women, unpacking the dramas of mothering and abandonment.
A richly woven story, gripping, moving and often unexpected. I enjoyed this book immensely - Esther Freud
Niamh Mac Cabe is an award-winning writer of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, and hybrid prose. She is also a visual artist, an editor, and a lecturer on the Honours Degree in Writing & Literature, the Honours Degree in Performing Arts, and the Masters in Creative Practice at ATU Sligo. Dublin-born, she worked overseas for several years in the Animated Film industry before 'settling' in northwestern Ireland.
Bethany Joy Dawson holds an MPhil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin, and her debut novel, My Father’s House, was published in 2013 to critical acclaim. Familiar is her second novel. She is the curator of Upstream, an offering of weekly essays that map the landscape as she sees it – literary, physical, spiritual and other.Originally from Co. Down, she now lives in Sligo with her husband and three children.