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The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and The WORD Centre for Creative Writing proudly presents,
Five Irish Writers.
A Spring Series of Public Readings by five of the most exciting contemporary Irish Writers.
EVENT ONE: Billy O'Callaghan
Billy O’Callaghan is the author of three short story collections: In Exile and In Too Deep (Mercier Press), and The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind (New Island Books), which was honoured with a Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Award and selected as Cork's "One City, One Book" for 2017. His first novel, The Dead House, was published by Brandon Books/O'Brien Press, and in the U.S. by Arcade in 2018. A recipient of the 2013 Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Award for Short Story of the Year, and a 2010 Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Award for Literature, his story, "The Boatman" was shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Short Story Award.
- Speaker
- Billy O'Callaghan
- Hosted by
- The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and The WORD Centre for Creative Writing
- Venue
- Humanity Manse