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Writer Kevin Barry on fancy chocolates, Cuchullain’s heroic diet, and naked seething ambition.
Kevin Barry’s novel, City of Bohane, has just been published in the U.S. It was shortlisted for both the Irish Novel of the Year and the Costa First Novel Award in 2011. His debut story collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2007. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, the Granta Book of the Irish Short Story, Best European Fiction 2011, and many other journals and anthologies. He also writes plays and screenplays. He lives in County Sligo.
Music, theatre, literature, art; the Droichead Arts Centre is bursting at the seams with a packed new programme for Spring, all of which you can enjoy in the comfort of your own home.
The doors of the Stockwell Street space may be closed, however a range of creative projects are continuing behind the scenes and the centre is proud to support many artists and initiatives in Drogheda and East Meath this Spring.
Highlights include Solo@Home, Slow Sessions Online and Drogheda Book Collective, with Droichead Arts Centre presenting a virtual meet-up with prize winning author Sara Baume.
While Droichead Presents Drama will support a number of theatre makers in the development of their practice and work over 2021 including Anthony Kinahan, Grainne Rafferty, Ronan Leahy and Juliette Crosbie.
Nikesh Shukla explores themes of racism, feminism, parenting and our shifting ideas of home. The memoir is a love letter to the author’s late mother – who passed away just before his eldest daughter was born – and to his two young daughters. In Brown Baby, Shukla examines how to raise the next generation with a sense of joy in an often bleak world. Nikesh asks the pivotal questions of our time - how do you find hope and even joy in a world that is racist, sexist and facing climate crisis? How do you prepare your children for it, but also fill them with all the boundlessness and eccentricity that they deserve and that life has to offer?