Our Stories Ourselves

To celebrate the 2018 Dublin: One City One Book choice, The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, we invite you to enjoy an evening of readings, discussions and songs. Sunday Independent Literary Editior Madeleine Keane chairs a discussion featuring writers Anne Enright, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Lisa McInerney, and the anthology's editior Sinéad Gleeson. Dramatised readings by actor Cathy Belton. Music by acclaimed singer and muscian Lisa Hannigan.

Sinéad Gleeson is the editor of The Long Gaze Back and The Glass Shore, two anthologies of stories by Irish women writers.Her own collection of essays Constellations will be published in 2019 by Picador.

Christine Dwyer Hickey has published seven novels, one short story collection and a full-length play. The Cold Eye of Heaven won the Irish Novel of the Year 2012 and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Tatty was nominated for the Orange Prize and was one of the 50 Irish Novels of the Decade. Her short story collection, The House on Parkgate Street was published in 2013. Her latest novel The Lives of Women, was published in April 2015.

Lisa McInerney’s work has featured in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, Granta and BBC Radio 4 and in the anthologies Beyond The Centre, The Long Gaze Back and Town and Country. Her debut novel The Glorious Heresies won the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the 2016 Desmond Elliott Prize. Lisa’s second novel, The Blood Miracles, was published by John Murray in April 2017.

Madeleine Keane is the Literary Editor of the Sunday Independent

Cathy Belton is an acclaimed actor. Her recent screen credits include Philomena, A Little Chaos directed by Alan Rickman and My Name Is Emily, (dir. Simon Fitzmaurice). She recently acted in Mark O'Rowe's play The Approach.

Lisa Hannigan has released three albums: Sea Sew (2008), Passenger(2011), and At Swim (2016). Her music has received award nominations both in Ireland and the USA.