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Killarney’s connection with World War 2 to be celebrated on July 13
Killarney’s connection with World War 2 humanitarian Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty will be celebrated at a very special evening in The Gleneagle INEC Club on July 13.
Acclaimed novelist, Joseph O’Connor will visit Killarney to talk about his latest best-selling book, ‘My Father’s House’.
‘My Father’s House’ is inspired by the extraordinary story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty and how he and a band of activists saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Rome.
Join Joseph for readings from the book, and conversation with Philip King broadcaster - musician, producer and founder of Other Voices series, as well as live performances from soprano Sharon Lyons and countertenor Nils Wanderer.
Dublin-born Joseph O’Connor is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and broadcaster. He is the author of ten novels including Star of the Sea, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book novel 2011), Shadowplay (Easons An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2019) and the international bestseller My Father’s House (January 2023).
Among his awards are the Prix Zepter for European Novel of the Year, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, an American Library Association Award, the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature and the American Ireland Funds Literary Award 2022.
His work has been translated into forty languages. In 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.
Twice-Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey has written, ‘There are few living writers who can take us back in time so assuredly, through such gorgeous sentences. Joseph O’Connor is a wonder.’
Joseph will be signing copies of My Father’s House and copies of the novel will be on sale at the event. Tickets from €13 plus booking fee are on sale now from the INEC Box Office and ticketmaster.ie
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