In Conversation: Carmel McMahon and Martina Evans
Thu 24 Oct
|Hewson Books Brentford
As part of our celebrations for Irish Book Week 2024, and in association with the Irish Cultural Centre, we will be hosting an evening with writers Carmel McMahon and Martina Evans. They will be in discussion and reading from their books In Ordinary Time and The Coming Thing.
Time & Location
24 Oct 2024, 18:30 – 19:30
Hewson Books Brentford, 6 Bradshaw Yard, Brentford, TW8 8GB, UK
About the Event
As part of our celebrations for Irish Book Week 2024, and in association with the Irish Cultural Centre, we will be hosting an evening with writers Carmel McMahon and Martina Evans. They will be in discussion and reading from their books In Ordinary Time and The Coming Thing.
Candid yet lyrical, In Ordinary Time mines the ways that trauma reverberates through time and through individual lives, drawing connections to the events and rhythms of Ireland’s long Celtic, early Christian and Catholic history. From tragically lost siblings to the broader social scars of the Famine and the Magdalene Laundries, Mc Mahon sketches the evolution of a consciousness – from her conservative 1970s upbringing to 1990s New York, and back to the much-changed Ireland of today.
The Coming Thing is a brilliant long narrative poem which takes us to a particular version of 1980s Cork, a party town of punks and teenage poses. Martina Evans…