About this Event
This event will take place in The Great Hall in the North Range of IMMA Venues.
From Irishwomen United through to the Repeal the 8th campaign, join us for an engaging morning of conversation tracing the seismic impact of women activists in Ireland through the decades. Author Evelyn Conlon is co-editor, along with Rebecca Pelan, of After the Train (UCD Press). This striking collection of essays captures the courageous efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train. Author Sinéad Gleeson’s feminist writing often illuminates women who have had a powerful impact on our time. Join them in conversation with Clodagh Finn, author of Through Her Eyes: A new history of Ireland in 21 women.
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Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Michel Déon Prize, and has been translated into several languages. She is the editor of four anthologies including The Art of the Glimpse and the award-winning The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, and The Glass Shore. Sinéad has engaged in collaborations with artists and musicians, with commissions from The Wellcome Collection, the RHA, BBC, Rua Red Gallery and Frieze. She is co-editor with Kim Gordon of This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music. Her debut novel, Hagstone, was published in 2024 by 4 th Estate. It was longlisted for Dublin International Literary Award and shortlisted for the John McGahern Book Prize.
Clodagh Finn is a journalist and the author of The Irish in the Resistance (with John Morgan), Through Her Eyes: a history of Ireland in 21 women and A Time to Risk All, a biography of Mary Elmes (who is known as ‘The Irish Oskar Schindler’). She has a degree in French and Archaeology from UCD and is particularly interested in writing about overlooked stories from history.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Military Road, Dublin 8, Ireland
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