NOVELISTS IN CONVERSATION – TALKS IN STRABANE LIBRARY
Libraries NI is delighted to announce its support of Creativity Month, by planning a wide programme of events taking place in libraries during the month of March.
To mark Creativity Month, Strabane Library, in co-operation with the Strabane Theatre Festival fringe, is offering the opportunity to hear in conversation two of Ireland’s finest novelists. On Tuesday 22nd and Thursday 24th March respectively, David Park and Eoin McNamee will give free talks in the library, during which they will speak about their careers and writing.
David Park’s most recent novel, The Truth Commissioner (2008), imagines that a South African style Truth and Reconciliation process has been established in the North of Ireland and describes how four lives become inextricably linked through a shared and hidden past. This novel was broadcast on Radio 4's 'Book at Bedtime' and also won the Christopher Ewarts-Biggs Memorial Prize, which recognises works that promote peace and reconciliation in Ireland. David Park’s other novels include Stone Kingdoms (1996), The Big Snow (2002) and Swallowing the sun (2004).
Eoin McNamee is a native of Kilkeel and now lives in Sligo. Eoin’s first extended work of fiction, a novella called The Last of Deeds, was published by Raven Arts Press in Dublin in 1989. His first mainstream novel Resurrection Man, which dealt with the Shankill Butchers, was published in 1994. He wrote a second troubles novel Ultras, which had as its subject Robert Nairac and his disappearance in South Armagh. That was followed by The Blue Tango in 2001, which dealt with the murder of the daughter of Judge Curran in Newtownabbey in the early nineteen fifties. His latest book is Orchid Blue, which has at its centre the case of Robert McGladdery, the last man to be sentenced to death by hanging in N Ireland. Eoin also writes crime fiction under the alias John Creed.
The conversations are timed to facilitate patrons of the Theatre Festival, beginning at 7.15pm and lasting half an hour. Admission is free and everyone is invited to come along to these two talks.
For further information on these two novelist in conversation events (David Park on Tuesday 22nd March and Eoin McNamee on Thursday 24th March), contact Strabane Library (Railway Road) on telephone no. 028 7188 3686 or email Strabane.Library@librariesni.org.uk
March 2011 has been designated ‘Creativity Month’, during which a range of events will take place to help raise the profile of the Creative Industries and inspire new ideas and libraries across Northern Ireland are holding events and initiatives to mark this month.
For more information on events being held in Northern Ireland libraries visit www.librariesni.org.uk
