Writing Childhood at New Theatre Temple Bar, Saturday 31st May
4:45 – 6pm (Writing Childhood Through Fiction)
and 6:15-7:15pm (Lia Mills, Tribute to John McGahern and Edna O’Brien)
Ticket proceeds to Barnardos
WRITING CHILDHOOD THROUGH FICTION
4:45-6pm
LOUISE NEALON (SNOWFLAKE) IN CONVERSATION WITH CATHERINE AIREY, (CONFESSIONS) ANNA FITZGERALD (GIRL IN THE MAKING) AND CHARLEEN HURTUBISE. (THE POLITE ACT OF DROWNING).
Louise Nealon’s debut novel, Snowflake, 2021, won Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Book Awards and was the One Dublin One Book choice for 2024. She has recently completed her second novel. Catherine Airey is of Irish-British ancestry with roots in Cork. Confessions is her first novel. She is currently working on her second book. Anna Fitzgerald grew up in Dublin and has recently completed her second novel. Charleen Hurtubise is originally from the U.S.A. She has completed her second novel, Saoirse (2026).
Join Lia Mills for A Tribute to John McGahern’s The Dark and Edna O’Brien’s A Pagan Place (With Maureen O’Connor, Edna O’Brien and the Art of Fiction; Michael G. Cronin, Revolutionary Bodies. Readings by Emma Lowe and Freddy McKinley).
Literary event in aid of Barnardos.
