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Writer in Residence at The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Belgium
From February until April 2016 Evelyn Conlon was the writer in residence at the The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe. In addition to her own work she contributed to…
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Short stories, essays and writing in anthologies: 2014, Ireland, Dublin. ‘What Happens at Night’, in Lines of Vision – Irish Writers on Art, ed. Janet McLean. London: Thames and Hudson.
Read MoreAustralasian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 13, 2013
Review of Evelyn Conlon, Not the Same Sky. Wakefield Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-74305-242-6. PB. 251pp. $24.95. Evelyn Conlon’s latest novel, Not the Same Sky, is based on the true story…
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By 1848 famine has ravaged Ireland, and London remains undecided about what to do. A shortage of female labour in Australia offers a kind of solution and so, over the…
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Sydney launch of Not the Same Sky by Jeff Kildea Life is often compared to a journey. Perhaps that’s why novelists frequently use a journey narrative in their writing as…
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Not the Same Sky – by Evelyn Conlon. Launch address by Mike Richards at Readings Bookshop, Melbourne, 5 September, 2013. I’m delighted to be here to launch Evelyn Conlon’s wonderful…
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The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig celebrated a quarter of a century in 2006 and marked this important milestone with the launch of a beautiful volume, Annaghmakerrig. The Centre is an artists’ retreat set amid the lakes and drumlins of County Monaghan.
Read MoreLater On
The Monaghan Bombing Memorial Anthology. Commissioned by the Arts Office of Monaghan County Council, this publication is a literary monument to those who lost their lives in the no-warning bombs in Monaghan town in 1972. Later On is a unique book to which writers born or living in Monaghan have contributed short stories, essays, poems and excerpts from novels.
Read MoreSkin of Dreams
“Conlon illuminates powerfully the dark corners of life we rage against but don’t, won’t engage with, such as death row and the lives of its inmates and prison warders. Conlon has honed her already sharp observations of the little cruelties and comedies of tragedy and in this tale it is near perfect. This is an extraordinary and angry novel, which, once started, keeps you riveted with a peculiar fascination right to the end”. Books Ireland
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