Marketplace Theatre, Armagh

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Impermanence is a celebrated collection of twelve essays by writers from or living in Northern Ireland, written against a backdrop of Brexit, the Covid pandemic and the centenary of the partition of Ireland.

Joining author and co-editor Neil Hegarty around the table will be contributors Jan Carson, Nandi Jola and Susan McKay, as they reflect upon the book’s themes and suggest ways of looking at our past, present and future as we live through a period of unparalleled change.

Neil Hegarty is an author and journalist from Derry. He has published two novels, Inch Levels (2016) and The Jewel (2019) and several works of historical non-fiction.

Jan Carson is a renowned Belfast writer. Her novels include Malcolm Orange Disappears(2014), The Fire Starters (2019) and The Raptures (2022). Her work has appeared in numerous journals and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4.

Nandi Jola came to live in Northern Ireland in 2001. Her debut poetry collection, Home Is Neither Here Nor There (Doire Press, 2022), has been translated to Italian and Xhosa. 

Susan McKay is an award-winning writer and commentator whose most recent book is Northern Protestants – On Shifting Ground (2021). She became Ireland’s Press Ombudsman in 2022.

Commissioned by the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, Impermanence was edited by Nora Hickey M’Sichili and Neil Hegarty and published by No Alibis Press. It was recently adapted for radio by Ireland’s RTÉ Radio 1.

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