The Irish novelist James Ryan will read from and discuss his novel, Seeds of Doubt, in GENTRY 119E at 11am today, April 10.
James Ryan is Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin (UCD). Ryan has published South of the Border (2008), which is set in the Irish Midlands during World War II, Seeds of Doubt, Dismantling Mr. Doyle, and Home from England. Ryan’s work explores the rural Ireland of the 1930s and 1940s and the conflicted terrain of generation and culture. He was the Gerson Reader in 2008, and helped to organize last year's Gerson readings by Anne Enright and Colm Toibin in honor of his deceased wife, Caroline Walsh.
He is in the area this week to launch a recently announced UCD-NYU €150,000 Laureateship for Irish fiction that he has helped to develop. See http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/new-award-honouring-irish-writers-worth-150-000-1.1627400
For more information, contact: Mary Burke at mary.burke@uconn.edu