A Tribute & Interview with Seán Rocks & Special Guests Mia Gallagher & Claire Kilroy
Date: Sat 03 March
Time: 8pm
Venue: glór
Price: €15 / €12
In this very special event, we pay tribute to one of Ireland’s greatest living writers, Sebastian Barry. Mia Gallagher & Claire Kilroy will discuss the work of the celebrated poet, playwright and novelist in the first half, and after a short interval, Seán Rocks will be joined on stage by Sebastian for an intimate and unmissable interview.
Sebastian Barry is the only novelist to have won the coveted Costa best novel award twice. Days Without End is described by the Financial Times as “not only a story of survival [but] a love story, too, written in a gorgeous style that blends Barry’s characteristic eloquence with the straight-talk of early America… firmly in the tradition of Irish diaspora writing”. He has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novels A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008) which has since been made into a film by Jim Sheridan.
This event is kindly supported by The Ennis Bookshop.