Book Launch: Amethyst Country
Info
Date:
August 31, 2022
Time:
6.30-8.30pm
Location:
Irish Writers Centre
Price:
Free
Please join us for the launch of Amethyst Country, a contemporary novel set on Achill Island by Mary Lennon, in the Irish Writers Centre on Wednesday 31st August.
As there is limited capacity at this event, please email info@writerscentre.ie should you wish to attend. We would kindly request that visitors to the IWC building wear a face covering when moving around shared spaces.
Please join us for the launch of Amethyst Country, a contemporary novel set on Achill Island by Mary Lennon, in the Irish Writers Centre on Wednesday 31st August.
As there is limited capacity at this event, please email info@writerscentre.ie should you wish to attend. We would kindly request that visitors to the IWC building wear a face covering when moving around shared spaces.
Amethyst Country – is a contemporary novel set on Achill Island – by Mary Lennon
It interweaves the stories of two characters: Helen, trying to escape her own sorrows while researching painter, Grace Henry, whose life and work is overshadowed by her more famous husband Paul Henry; and Finn, back home after the building crash becomes reluctantly involved with a group who want to memorialize the island’s tattie hokers. Through their two voices the novel explores painful personal loss, the price of artistic commitment and keeping faith with the past.
DATE: Weds August 31st
VENUE : Irish Writers Centre
TIME. 6.30 – 8.30
Join me for some readings, music, glass of wine.
Mary Lennon began writing non-fiction, while living in London, co-editing, Across the Water, Irish Women’s Lives in Britain, with Marie McAdam & Joanne O’Brien. Published by Virago Press and widely acclaimed in the UK & Ireland. Back in Ireland she focused on writing short stories and poetry, published in Crannog, Culture Matters, Time Lines and on radio: BBC4 & Sunday Miscellany, RTE Radio 1. She won first Prize at Listowel Poetry Competition and was a runner up winner in William Trevor, Roberts and Tipperary short story competitions as well as being shortlisted in a number of others. Amethyst Country is her first novel. It was a winner in the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2017 which spurred her on to revise… revise… edit… edit … and complete. She has worked as a community Worker, and Teacher of English and Creative Writing in colleges, Prison and Adult Education in the UK & Ireland Signed books will be on sale. She has worked as a community Worker, and Teacher of English and Creative Writing in colleges, Prison and Adult Education in the UK & Ireland.
