5th Annual Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Lecture - Crime In The City

Dublin is the fourth UNESCO City of Literature, one of 28 UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide.With four Nobel prize winners (Yeats, Beckett, Shaw and Heaney), a brace of universities of global distinction in Trinity and UCD, over half a dozen books festivals, the internationally prestigious Dublin Literary Award and a world class new city library in the planning, it is without doubt that Ireland’s capital has words in its blood.The Literature designation is one of seven designations within theCreative Cities Network.To find out about future events, sign up to our newsletterhttps://dcpla.ie/city-of-literature-newsletteror sign up on our websitewww.dublincityofliterature.ie

Dublin UNESCO City of Literature

Crime in the City, The 5th annual Dublin UNESCO city of literature lecture by Prof. Chris Morash

Dublin City Library & Archive

There are cities whose imagination has been shaped by crime fiction. Whether it is the London of Sherlock Holmes or the Los Angeles of Michael Connolly’s Harry Bosch, the city’s best crime fiction has woven itself into the streets and sidewalks. When it comes to crime fiction, Dublin has been something of a late-comer, and until about twenty years or so ago, Dublin’s fictional detectives were thin on the ground. That situation, however, has changed dramatically, and over the past few decades an entire imagined history has fallen into place, from Conor Brady’s historical crime novels set in the 1880s, through Joe Joyce’s thrillers set in the 1940s, to Benjamin Black’s Quirke novels set in the 1950s, right up to writers such as Tana French and Declan Hughes, whose characters inhabit the Dublin of today. This talk presented during Ireland Reads month will range widely through the dark alleys and wet laneways of Dublin crime writing, asking what it means for us to imagine our city as the home of its fictional criminals and detectives.

Date : 15 February 2023

Time : 6.30pm 

Location : Dublin City library and Archive, 144 Pearse Street Dublin 2.

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