Ellen Ryan, award-winning children’s writer, will be in conversation with Sarah Moore Fitzgerald on her new book, Gods Don’t Cry, which features a cast of male gods and immortals with connections all over Ireland and beyond. Amongst many, we meet Mannanan, who uses his neurodiversity to discover the Otherworld, Meiche, who finds the courage to accept his illness, and Cnu Deroil, who overcomes bullies with his musical talent. Here are gods of many abilities, sizes, and skin shades, from every corner of Ireland.

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