Deep Pools of Nostalgia
Join us for this conversation on memory and nostalgia.
Peter Sirr’s Intimate City considers the city as a layered place, a physical space reverberating with the presence of history, ideas, and the people who walked there. In Belinda McKeon’s For Keeps our protagonist returns from abroad, navigating a city full of memories as she reconnects with an old flame. Join the authors and neuroscientist Shane O’Mara in conversation with Garrett Fagan as they consider how the faces and places of a city interact with our memory.
Peter Sirr lives in Dublin. The Gallery Press has published his eleven poetry collections, most recently The Swerve, (2023) and The Gravity Wave (2019) which was a Poetry Society Recommendation and winner of the 2020 Farmgate Café National Poetry Award. A collection of essays about Dublin, Intimate City, was published in 2021. He teaches literary translation in Trinity College, Dublin and is a member of Aosdána.
Belinda McKeon is a novelist and playwright. Her novels are Solace (Picador, 2011) and Tender (2015). She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Maynooth University.
Shane O'Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research at in the Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. His research interests include understanding the brain mechanisms allowing us to create the ‘imagined communities’ that are our nations. His most recent book (2024) is Talking : The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds, available widely.
Garrett Fagan has taught at universities in Dublin and at Warwick University in the UK. He has interests in Renaissance literature, legal - literary relations and Anglo Irish writing. Garrett is teaching a course of four classes in April at Pearse St Library on this year's One Dublin One Book choice, Dublin, Written In Our Hearts.
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