Ireland: Real and Remembered

Ireland: Real and Remembered

A complex portrait of life in Ireland from a kaleidoscope of perspectives, featuring award-winning novelists and non-fiction writers. This year Ireland marks a significant anniversary: 25 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. If that political treaty brought about a fragile peace after years of the Troubles, how can Ireland come to terms with the enduring memories of conflict?

 

Sunday Salon: Maria Fusco & Margaret Salmon

Sunday 13 August 16:00 - 17:30

Sunday Salon: Maria Fusco & Margaret Salmon Book
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Northern Irish writer Maria Fusco, British-American artist filmmaker Margaret Salmon, and composer Annea Lockwood have collaborated on History of the Present, a hybrid opera that will be performed live at Edinburgh Art Festival. In the first of our...
 

Paul Murray: Painfully Funny Fiction

Sunday 13 August 19:30 - 20:30

Paul Murray: Painfully Funny Fiction Book
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The word ‘tragicomic’ could have been invented for Irish author Paul Murray, who hit the bullseye a decade ago with his simultaneously hilarious and devastating novel, Skippy Dies. Now he may even have surpassed that success with his fourth novel,...
 

Sebastian Barry & Steven Isserlis: Things We Don’t Remember and Things We Can’t Forget

Sunday 13 August 20:30 - 21:30

Sebastian Barry & Steven Isserlis: Things We Don’t Remember and Things We Can’t Forget Book
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What is Old God’s Time? It’s ancient history and it’s an almost impossibly moving, unforgettable story from one of Ireland’s greatest living authors. This novel – surely Sebastian Barry’s masterpiece – is set by the seaside near Dublin,...
 

Jan Carson, Fergal Keane & Aoife Moore: After Good Friday

Friday 18 August 10:00 - 11:00

Jan Carson, Fergal Keane & Aoife Moore: After Good Friday Book
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How fragile is peace, even 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement? Three Irish writers discuss their perspectives. Jan Carson is a community arts worker and writer of The Raptures and east Belfast-set The Fire Starters; Fergal Keane was the BBC’s...
 

Rachel Connolly & Michael Magee: Near and Far

Saturday 26 August 17:15 - 18:15

Rachel Connolly & Michael Magee: Near and Far Book
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In their electrifying debut novels, Rachel Connolly and Michael Magee grapple with friendship and uncertain futures that come with being young and being home against the backdrop of Belfast. Magee’s Close To Home draws on his own experiences to...