Tribute to a real class act
WRITERS, academics and readers will gather at the 28th Kate O’Brien Weekend in Limerick from Feb 24-26 to celebrate of one of the most astute chroniclers of middle-class Ireland in the first half of the 20th century. The Kate O’Brien lecture will be given by Seamus Heaney in a weekend of readings and discussions on a range of topics at the Belltable Arts Centre and at the Lime Tree Theatre, Mary Immaculate College.
The theme of the weekend is ‘tell it slant’, a quote from Emily Dickinson’s poem, Tell the Truth but Tell it Slant, meaning tell the truth but indirectly. One of the speakers is Dr Niamh Hourigan, head of graduate studies in sociology at UCC. Hourigan’s paper is Intimacy and Integrity in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland.
