Held at beautiful Inish Beg near Baltimore, it features talks, debates, film, music and local field trips
The peace treaty being signed in the hall of mirrors in Versailles, France, June 28th June 1919. Photograph: by Sir William Orpen/IWM via Getty ImagesIs the aftermath of epoch-making events really when the action happens? Not the war; the peace treaty. Not the referendum; the negotiation. Follow the hand… how often have we heard people comment that one side won the war and the other the peace?
Recovering the possible futures of the past, the histories that never came to be, has allowed both writers to illuminate the periods about which they have written. We can expect them to shed some of this light on us. Martin Doyle’s Dirty Linen is a reflection on the trauma of the Troubles in his home place and its aftermath, and he will discuss both the writing of it and the reactions to it. Henry Hemming will talk about his recently published book on the British undercover agent Stakeknife. There are many stories from the covert side of that conflict, and the period more generally, which remain untold, but that is now beginning to change.
Diaspora – our range of contributions on this will include Thomas Keneally in conversation with Myles Dungan, on his latest novel on the life and complex inheritance of John Mitchel. Myles himself has a new book out, Land is All That Matters, and he will also talk about this, a subject of course at the heart of many stories of the diaspora. We will hear from Ida Milne on the letters of the Elmes Family and their revelation of three “sides” in the 1798 rising in Wexford.
If this is not enough, we will hear from Ruti Lachs on the history of Cork’s Jewish community and from Caroline Campbell on the evolving role of the National Gallery in Irish life from its founding to the present day. Taking us further away and further back in time, Christopher de Bellaigue will conjure up 16th-century Constantinople, talking about his book on the early career of Suleyman the Magnificent. This is a novelistic treatment of an extraordinary man at the heart of a remarkable empire.
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