We have the great pleasure of welcoming Irish writer and academic Eibhear Walshe as speaker for this year's birthday lecture. It will be an online only event, 8.30pm BST, 7th June 2024

In this birthday lecture, Eibhear Walshe discusses his experience of fictionalising the life of Elizabeth Bowen in his 2020 novel, The Last Day at Bowen's Court , and looks at the way his creative process was helped by his research on Bowen and Ireland and the letters between Bowen and Charles Ritchie. The ways in which fiction can transcend the limits of biography is at the centre of his interest.