Prizewinners4Palestine
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Date:
July 12, 2016
Date: Tues 12 July
Time: 6–7.30pm
Tickets via Eventbrite: €5 | Tickets on the door: €7
A PalFest Ireland event, www.palfestireland.net
Award-winning Irish writers Kevin Barry and Lisa McInerney read from their work, hosted by award-winning screenwriter and actor Mark O’Halloran.
Kevin Barry is the author of two collections of short stories, and the novel City of Bohane, which was the winner of the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His 2015 novel Beatlebone won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize.
Lisa McInerney’s debut novel The Glorious Heresies won the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Literature. She writes a blog under the name “Sweary Lady”.
Writer-actor Mark O’Halloran is the award-winning screenwriter of Adam and Paul, Viva, the television series Prosperity and the award-winning radio play Mary Motorhead.