Novelist Colm Tóibín is the award-winning author of the novels The Master and Brooklyn (which became the 2015 movie starring Saoirse Ronan). His latest book, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, is an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history, and literature, as told through the lives and work […]
Patrick's Radden Keefe's latest book is SAY NOTHING: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. In this book, Keefe explores the world of the Provisional IRA. The disappearance of Jean McConville in 1972 is the jumping off point for an exploration of The Troubles and a tale of a society wracked by […]
The WB Yeats Society presents Padraig O Tuama, in a reading of his new and powerful collection of poetry, which arises from his work in reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Called “an extraordinary person whose influence extends quietly and gracefully across the world” by NPR’s Krista Tippett, Tuama encourages people who lived through the Troubles to […]
