Imagining Handel with Swift

george_frideric_handel_by_balthasar_dennerDirector of Creative Writing, Dr Eibhear Walshe, will be talking about his  historical novel on Handel at the forthcoming Swift Symposium in The Deanery, St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin on Saturday, October 15, when he will discuss his portrayal of Swift and his imagining of a meeting between the two men on the morning of the first performance of Messiah in Fishamble Street in April 1742.  See http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie/event/swift/