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Reading 1
Irish Writers' Centre reading on Tuesday 18th October at 7.30pm
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Thomas Kilroy |
| Thomas Kilroy was born in 1934 in County Kilkenny and now lives in County Mayo. His novel, The Big Chapel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Heinemann Award. The Gallery Press is publishing all his plays. The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche, Double Cross, Ghosts (after Ibsen), My Scandalous Life, The O'Neill, The Seagull (after Chekhov), The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, The Shape of Metal, Talbot's Box, Tea and Sex and Shakespeare, Pirandellos (Two Plays) and Christ Deliver Us! (2010) are also available. Winner of the 2008 Irish PEN/A T Cross Award for Literature, Thomas Kilroy received The Irish Times/ESB 'Lifetime Achievement' Award in 2004. |
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James Lawless |
| James Lawless was born in Dublin and divides his time between Kildare and West Cork. His short story, The Halloween Party, was included in the first Fish anthology, The Fish Garden, 1995. First novel, Peeling Oranges published in 2007. A play, The Fall, was performed in the Source Arts Centre, Thurles, the same year. His story, Jolt, was shortlisted for the Willesden Prize and appeared in New Short Stories 1, edited by Zadie Smith (London/ New York, Willesden Heral, 2007). Awards include the Scintilla Welsh Open Poetry competition in 2002 and the Cecil Day Lewis Play Award 2005 for What Are Neighbours For? Most recent short stories, Brown Brick, in The Stinging Fly's new anthology, Let's be alone together, and The Kiss in Sunday Tribune's New Writing Page (04-01-09). A second novel, For Love of Anna was published in 2009 as was his book on modern poetry, Clearing The Tangled Wood: Poetry as a way of seeing the world. James also writes book reviews for Laura Hird's online New Review and for the Irish Times and The Stinging Fly magazine. |
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Evelyn Conlon |
Evelyn Conlon is a novelist and short story writer who has published three novels, the last of which, Skin of Dreams was shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year, and three collections of short stories, including Telling, New and Selected Short Stories. She has been anthologized and translated widely. The title story of one of her books, Taking Scarlet as A Real Colour, was performed at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival and has recently been translated into Tamil. She has compiled and edited four books including Later On, a memorial anthology 30 years after the Monaghan Bombing. This book was used as the subject of a series of lectures titled The Language of War, at Forli University, Italy. She has been described as 'one of Ireland's truly creative writers' whose work is 'suffused with wit'. She has given workshops and read widely in Ireland and internationally. She is a member of Aosdána. |
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| To book places at the Sligo and Granard readings, please contact those venues directly. |
| Admission is free to the readings at the Irish Writers' Centre but donations are very welcome. To reserve your seat, call or email the Centre. |
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