Colm Tóibín, Niamh Campbell and Caitríona Crowe discuss the 60th Anniversary of John McGahern's, The Barracks.
Mon 20 Mar 2023 19:00 - 20:00 GMT
Online, Zoom
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Next up in the John McGahern Barracks Museum webinar series is Colm Tóibín, Niamh Campbell and Caitríona Crowe discussing the 60th Anniversary of John McGahern's, The Barracks. Moderated by Dr. Barry Houlihan, Archivist at NUIG with an introduction from Tom Inglis.
Colm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022–2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York. His most recent book is the book of essays entitled A Guest at the Feast (2022).
Niamh Campbell won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Contest in 2020 and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2021. Her novels This Happy (2020) and We Were Young (2022) are published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, and the monograph Sacred Weather: Atmospheric Essentialism in the Work of John McGahern (2019) by Cork University Press. She lectures in creative writing at University College Dublin.
Catriona Crowe is former Head of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland. She was Manager of the Census Online Project, which placed the Irish 1901 and 1911 censuses online free to access. She is editor of Dublin 1911, published by the Royal Irish Academy in late 2011. She presented the RTE documentaries, Ireland before the Rising, shown in February 2016, and Life After the Rising, shown in January 1919. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. She published a long piece in the Dublin Review in June 2021 on the Commission’s treatment of survivors’ testimony.
Dr. Barry Houlihan is an Archivist at University of Galway, where the John McGahern Archive is held. Recent projects include the cataloguing a new collection of over 1,500 letters to McGahern. Barry's recent book, Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories is published with Palgrave MacMillan. Barry is also editor of the journal, Irish Archives.
Tom Inglis is a sociologist. He retired from UCD some years ago and now lives outside Cootehall in a renovated schoolhouse that McGahern and his sisters attended. Most of his writings have been about Irish culture and society, particularly in relation to religion, the media, sexuality, identity and emotions. His first book was Moral Monopoly: The Catholic Church in Modern Irish Society (1987). His most recent book was To Love a Dog (2020).