Tonight! A New Chapter: Women Writing Northern Ireland Now
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An evening of readings and conversation with award-winning authors Lucy Caldwell, Jan Carson and Michelle Gallen about growing up in Northern Ireland during The Troubles and its continuing impact on their lives, communities, creative work, and Irish culture more broadly. Moderated by Caoilinn Hughes and Stephanie McCurry.
Presented in partnership with the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Consulate General of Ireland | New York, Glucksman Ireland House (New York University), the Center for Irish Studies (Villanova University), and Global Irish Studies (Georgetown University).
Speakers
Moderators
Caoilinn Hughes is the author of Orchid & the Wasp, which won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, and The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. She was recently the Oscar Wilde Centre Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, and is currently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library.
Stephanie McCurry, Professor of History at Columbia University, specializes in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, the nineteenth-century United States, the American South, and the history of women and gender. A native of Belfast, McCurry explores in recent work the comparative history of postwar societies and processes of reconstruction in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular attention to the active roles women have played in times of violence and its aftermath.
This event is the first in a three-part discussion, transpiring over three days, in New York (Nov 27), Villanova (Nov 28), and Washington, DC (Nov 29).
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