Remembering the Rising

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Mary Morrissy, Associate Director of Creative Writing, will discuss her novel The Rising of Bella Casey https://www.obrien.ie  as part of a panel discussion entitled “Remembering the Rising” at the Source Library and Arts Centre in Thurles on Thursday evening, November 24, at 7pm.

The event, which is open to the public, will consider 1916 as it is remembered and re-imagined, and will feature novelist Marita Conlon McKenna, https://maritaconlonmckenna.com/author of Rebel Sisters, based on the lives of the Gifford sisters, and Queen’s University historian Dr Fearghal McGarry, author of The Rising, Ireland Easter 1916. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-rising-9780192801869.