Photo: Martina Coady/The Gallery Press
CIARAN CARSON (Ireland) MICHAEL COADY(Ireland)
Photo: Manus Carson/The Gallery Press
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The Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle / Tuesday 10 August 6pm / Admission €13/€11
Poet, novelist, translator, and director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Ciaran Carson is one of Ireland’s most prolific and celebrated writers. His long and varied career has been showered with awards, including The Irish Times Literature Prize for Poetry, the Forward Prize and the Weidenfeld Translation Prize. His latest book of poems, Until Before After, follows last year’s acclaimed collection On the Night Watch. A profound and characteristically brave meditation on time and loss written in the “beautifully halting language that Carson has mastered”, Until Before After has been hailed as “a wonderful achievement … one of Carson’s most brilliant” (The Irish Times). Winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry, Michael Coady’s ambitious and distinctive work weaves together verse, prose and photography to tell “complicated stories with great economy and emotional directness” (The Irish Times). His new collection, Going by Water, is “an eclectic package of surprises” (Sunday Independent). Ranging from the river traditions of his home town, Carrick-on-Suir, to the newfound locales of Paris and beyond, Coady celebrates the mysterious triumphs of ordinary experience and everyday ritual with humour and compassion.
St Canice’s Cathedral / Wednesday 11 August 6pm / Admission €13/€11 / Ticket Deal: Get this event and Maarten Koningsberger & Finghin Collins (p.11) for €27 or this event and Evan Christopher’s Django à la Créole (p.19) for €26
“WHEN I’M SIXTY-FOUR” A Symposium on Pension Reform Teresa Ghilarducci (US) Jim Stewart (Ireland) Gerry Hughes (Ireland)
Introduced by Catriona Crowe Chaired by Fintan O’Toole
When I’m Sixty-Four is a symposium setting out a plan for sustainable pensions for all. With people living longer and financial markets plagued by uncertainty, Ireland faces serious choices about retirement. The National Pensions Framework claims to set out “a fair and equitable approach that encompasses all elements necessary for future pension provision”. But does it? Teresa Ghilarducci, Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York, outlines her radical plan to fund retirement in the US, while Jim Stewart and Gerry Hughes from the School of Business in Trinity College Dublin expose the flaws in Ireland’s current pension arrangements and put forward a fairer way of funding retirement. Introduced by Catriona Crowe, Head of Special Projects at the National Archives, and chaired by Fintan O’Toole, Assistant Editor of The Irish Times, this symposium will encourage audience participation.
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