On Wednesday May 26th at 7.00pm, Michael McDonough and Emer Martin will be reading at the Irish Writers' Centre.
Michael McDonough
Michael McDonough joined the Irish army as an officer cadet in 1949. He served with the United Nations as part of an Irish Army Battalion contingent and was awarded a UN Peace Medal.
He retired in 1996 and became Inspector of Physical Education at the Department of Education (the first such appointee in the history of the Irish state). A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, he was Chairman of the Council of Europe Sports Research Committee and lectures part-time at Sligo Institute of Technology.
He has skied every year since the 1950s and is an Honorary Life Member of the Irish Association of Ski Instructors.
Venture and Venus is Michael McDonough’s second novel. In his first book Sheep, Shite and Soldiers he introduced us to the character of Jack Muldoon.
Emer Martin
Emer Martin is a Dubliner who has lived in Paris, London, the Middle East, and various places in the U.S. Her first novel Breakfast in Babylon won Book of the Year 1996 in her native Ireland at the prestigious Listowel Writers' Week. Houghton Mifflin released Breakfast in Babylon in the U.S. in 1997. More Bread Or I'll Appear, her second novel was published internationally in 1999.
Emer studied painting in New York and has had a sell-out solo show of her paintings at the Origin Gallery in Harcourt St, Dublin. Her new book is Baby Zero, published March 07. She has just completed her third short film Unaccompanied. She produced Irvine Welsh's directorial debut NUTS in 2007. Emer was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. She now lives in the jungles of Co. Meath, Ireland.
