In pictures: Max Porter and Lisa Hannigan in Cork for launch of Kinship book by Dorothy Cross
Max Porter and Dorothy Cross at the launch of Kinship at Waterstones in Cork. Picture: Noel Sweeney
Cork artist Dorothy Cross launched her book Kinship at Waterstones in her native city on Friday night with an event that included contributions from singer Lisa Hannigan and novelist Max Porter.
Published by Lilliput Press, the book is the culmination of a longterm project by Cross involving the return of 2000-year-old mummified remains from Ireland to Egypt. As well documenting the journey of the remains that had been in the possession of University College Cork since the 1920s, Kinship also features essays and poems on related themes by several writers.
Among the contributors to the book who read at the Waterstones launch were poet and former UCC librarian John Fitzgerald, and UK author Porter, widely lauded for his Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, and whose novel Shy has been adapted for a film starring Cillian Murphy to be released later this year.
UCC president John O’Halloran also spoke at the launch, recounting a long association with Cross back to the 1970s when the artist was creating images of local bird species for ornithology projects.
