Name: A Reading from Sweep the Cobwebs off the Sky by Mary O’Donnell
Start: 2026-04-11T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-04-11T17:00:00+01:00
Location: James Joyce Centre

$A Reading from Sweep the Cobwebs off the Sky by Mary O\u2019Donnell$

An afternoon with the author, featuring selected excerpts from the novel
About this Event

Mary O’Donnell will read from her compelling new novel, Sweep the Cobwebs off the Sky. The book explores the lives of three older women, two daughters and their 93-year-old mother, and how returning to the family home awakens bitter memories of childhood abuse. The house itself is haunted by a poltergeist, reflecting the inner distress experienced by the novel’s protagonist.

About the Author

is a prolific and well-known poet and novelist. Her latest novel ‘Sweep the Cobwebs off the Sky’ has just been published by Époque Press, and her tenth poetry collection ‘Tenderness’ appears with Wake Forest University Press in September. Her collection of short stories 'Walking Ghosts' appeared last year from Mercier Press. She is a member since 2001 of the artists’ affiliation Aosdána.