Eoin McNamee in Conversation with Kevin Power

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TCD, Monday 21st October

Eoin McNamee in Conversation with Kevin Power – Celebrating the appointment of Eoin McNamee as Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, Trinity College Dublin.

Eoin McNamee is one of Ireland's most highly regarded novelists. He is the author of Resurrection Man (1994), The Blue Tango (2001), The Ultras (2004), 12:23 (2007), Orchid Blue (2010), Blue is the Night (2014), and, most recently, The Vogue (2018). He has also published three thrillers under the name John Creed, and, for children, he wrote the Navigator trilogy.

To celebrate this appointment, the TCD School of English is hosting this free public event in which Eoin will discuss his work and teaching with the writer Kevin Power.


Date:
Monday 21st October
Time:
6.30pm - 8.30pm
Price:
Free - Registration required
Address:
Trinity Long Room Hub, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland

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