Rough Magic

Our Friends in the North

A series of panel discussions running in conjunction with EVERYTHING BETWEE US, David Ireland’s award-winning play about two sisters reunited against the backdrop of Northern Ireland’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. All events are FREE but TICKETED. To book call Project Arts Centre (01) 881 9613 or CLICK HERE.

 

Saturday 14 February 5.30pm – 6.30pm:

Love in a Wet Climate: Sex, Sexuality and Equal Rights in Ireland, North and South

Jeffrey Dudgeon, UUP member of Belfast City Council (who took a landmark case to the European Court of Human Rights in 1981 which led to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Northern Ireland)

Una Mullally, journalist and broadcaster 

Colm O’Gorman, author, activist and Director of Amnesty International Ireland

Chair: Senator Ivana Bacik, barrister-at-law and Labour Senator for the University of Dublin 

 

Saturday 21 February 5.30pm – 6.30pm:

Lies, Damn Lies and the Facts: Dispelling Myths and Misunderstandings

Roy Foster, historian and Professor of Irish History at Oxford University

Susan McKay, writer and journalist

Ciaran O’Neill, historian and lecturer in Irish history at Trinity College, Dublin

Chair: Andy Pollak, founding director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies and journalist

 

Saturday 28 February 5.30pm – 6.30pm:

 Truth and Fictions: Representing Contemporary Northern Ireland

Martina Devlin, author and journalist

David Park, novelist and short story writer

Glenn Patterson, novelist and non-fiction writer

Chair: Olivia O’Leary, journalist, writer and current affairs broadcaster

 

All events are FREE but TICKETED. To book call Project Arts Centre (01) 881 9613 or CLICK HERE.

 

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