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Sally’s Dublin: The 7th Annual Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Lecture by Professor Chris Morash

Pearse Street Library: Wednesday 19 February at 6.30pm

Sally Rooney’s novels – from Conversations with Friends (2017), through Normal People (2018) to Intermezzo (2024) – have won her readers from around the world, with Time magazine counting her among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. While readers often speak of her ability to create vividly realised characters and relationships, what is often not noticed is the extent to which her novels are grounded in specific places. This is true of all of her work, but has become even more pronounced in her latest novel, Intermezzo, which is, apart from anything else, a Dublin novel.

In this, the most recent of the UNESCO City of Literature Annual Lectures, Prof. Chris Morash, the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at TCD, will be mapping Sally Rooney’s Dublin, looking at how the city is perhaps one of her most compelling characters.  
His most recent book, Dublin: A Writer’s City maps the city’s literary memory. He has also published Mapping Irish Theatre: Theories of Space and Place [with Shaun Richards] (2013), a book on Yeats’s theatre, histories of Irish media and Irish theatre, and a study of Irish Famine literature. He delivers the annual UNESCO City of Literature Lecture for Dublin City Libraries, and is currently working on projects on Irish literary salons and the trans-Atlantic telegraph.

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