Seamus Heaney Homeplace, Bellaghy

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In Conversation with Jan Carson

Karl Geary and Paul Murray are two of Ireland’s brightest literary talents and both have published much-anticipated novels this year. 

Karl Geary was born in Dublin and moved to New York at the age of 16. He co-founded two East Village institutions, the music venue Sin-e, and later the Scratcher. He has worked as a scriptwriter (Coney Island Baby) and an actor (Michael Almereyda's Hamlet and Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall) and he recently adapted and directed Dorothy Parker's You Were Perfectly Fine for the screen. His widely acclaimed debut Montpelier Parade was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and for Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. His second novel Juno Loves Legs has just been published to great critical acclaim.

Paul Murray was born in 1975 and raised in south Dublin. He finished his first novel, An Evening of Long Goodbyes, while doing a creative writing MA at the University of East Anglia. He followed this with the blackly comic Skippy Dies, longlisted for the Booker prize in 2010, and The Mark and the Void five years later. His latest novel, The Bee Sting, tracks the unravelling of a family in Ireland’s Midlands and has recently been longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023.

We are delighted to welcome Karl and Paul who will talk about their work in the company of novelist and short story writer Jan Carson.