The Lives of the Saints

In forty years of writing and living, inevitably and often by mere accident, a writer encounters other writers. This lecture is an account of some of the singular individuals met in this way over the years, many no longer with us, but who hold strong places in memory, and constitute a kind of private reference for how to endure as a writer and indeed how to write

Sebastian Barry is the second Laureate for Irish Fiction and was awarded the honour by the Arts Council in Februrary 2018. This will be his first Annual Lecture in this role.