Join Claire Keegan and Niall MacMonagle this Friday 15 December in Dún Laoghaire
This Friday you will have a chance to listen to Booker short-listed Claire Keegan in conversation with teacher and critic Niall MacMonagle in The Studio at The Lexlcon Library in Dún Laoghaire, at 7.00pm.
The event is being run in partnership with The National Print Museum as part of their Short Stories in Print project, which was commissioned to celebrate the museum’s 25th anniversary. Short Stories in Print launched on 21 October 2023, and features original work from Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Claire Keegan and Colm Tóibín. Beautiful and handsomely printed broadsides by master printer Seán Sills are now available as a signed, limited-edition portfolio of work.
Claire Keegan was one of six authors shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize for her novel Small Things Like These (Faber). At 116 pages, the book is the shortest to be recognised in the prize’s history. Likewise So Late in the Day is a short, beautiful breath of a story. “Elegance is saying just enough. And I do believe that the reader completes the story,” Keegan said in a recent Guardian interview, where she went on to say how trying to explain her work is impossible.
Niall MacMonagle initiated and edited the bestselling Lifelines series in which public figures wrote about their favourite poems. He also edits the poetry anthologies for transition year and the Leaving Certificate. A frequent contributor to RTE Radio 1, he lives in Dublin, where for many years he taught English at Wesley College.
The discussion will be followed with a festive reception, and will include some live printing.
