The Gerson family and University of Connecticut’s Department of English invites you to attend this year's Gerson Irish Reading by Claire Kilroy at 7:00pm on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 in the Alumni Center on the UConn Storrs Campus, 2384 Alumni Drive, Storrs, CT 06269. (Free parking available.)
Dubliner Claire Kilroy is one of Ireland’s most prominent contemporary writers. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin’s M.Phil. in Creative Writing program and the author of four novels with Faber and Faber: All Summer (2003), Tenderwire (2006), All Names Have Been Changed (2009), and The Devil I Know (2012), a carnivalesque fable of Ireland's recent property bubble that resurrects a character from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. She was awarded the 2004 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and has been short-listed for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award three times. She holds the Charles A. Heimbold Jr., Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University for the spring 2015 semester. Ms. Kilroy was the Gerson Irish Reader six years ago, and we are delighted to see her return!
The evening’s program is sponsored by the Gerson Family Fund and made possible by the generous assistance of the English Department and the Creative Writing Program.
For more information, contact: Mary Burke at mary.burke@uconn.edu