Eoin McNamee
LITERARY
Eoin McNamee
In conversation with Neil Hegarty
Thurs 10 July | 6pm
Event Details
Times & Dates:
Thurs 10 July | 6pm
Duration:
60 minutes
Event Categories:
Literary
Admission:
€12
Age Suitability:
16+
Venue:
Yeats Building, Hyde Bridge.
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Could she not see there was death about him? Could he not see there was death about her? Paddy worked the border, a place of road closures, hijackings, sudden death. Everything bootleg and tawdry, nobody is saying that the law is paid off, but it is. This is strange terrain, unsolid, ghosted through.
Join us for an evening with celebrated author Eoin McNamee, in conversation with fellow author Neil Hegarty, as they dive into McNamee’s highly acclaimed new novel The Bureau (2025).
Eoin McNamee is a novelist and screenwriter. His novels include The Bureau (2025), Resurrection Man (1994) the Blue Trilogy (2001-2010), The Ultras (2004), and The Vogue (2018). He wrote the screenplay for the film Resurrection Man (1998) directed by Marc Evans and I Want You (1998) directed by Michael Winterbottom. His television credits include Hinterland (BBC Wales/Netflix) An Brontanas (TG4), and Vikings Valhalla (Netflix). He is the Director of the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre.
Neil Hegarty grew up in Derry. His novels include The Jewel (2019), and Inch Levels (2016), which was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year award. His short fiction and essays have appeared in the Dublin Review, Stinging Fly, Cyphers, Tangerine, Banshee and elsewhere; and he is co-editor of the essay collection Impermanence.
“This is an astonishingly powerful portrait of a time and place saturated in sentimentality and cruelty, where, despite the ever-present sectarianism, ‘nobody was on anyone’s side’.”
- The Guardian (USA)