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Award-winning author Mike McCormack to read his work at University College Cork

17 Sep 2024
  • Mike McCormack will give a public reading during a visit to UCC to meet Creative Writing, Arts and Humanities students.
  • Members of the public invited to attend free event hosted by UCC School of English and Digital Humanities.

Mike McCormack, award-winning author and short-story writer, will give a public reading during a visit to University College Cork on Monday, 7 October at 6.30pm.
Hosted by UCC School of English and Digital Humanities, the free event is open members of the public, students and staff.

Mike McCormack is an award-winning Irish novelist and short-story writer. He was raised on a farm in County Mayo, and has published two collections of short stories, Getting It In the Head and Forensic Songs, and four novels — Crowe's Requiem, Notes from a Coma, Solar Bones, and This Plague of Souls.

In 1996, he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. In 1998, Getting It In the Head was voted a New York Times ‘Notable Book of the Year’. In 2006, Notes from a Coma was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award, and is currently on the Senior Cycle reading list for Leaving Certificate English.

In 2016, Solar Bones won the Goldsmiths Prize, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, was named Novel of the Year by the Irish Book Awards, and won the Dublin International Literary Award (previously known as the IMPAC). His latest novel, This Plague of Souls, follows a painter named Nealon as he returns home from prison and sets out to find his wife and child amid brewing global unrest.

An unmissable opportunity 

Danny Denton, Lecturer in Creative Writing at UCC, said: “We’re thrilled to be welcoming a true literary luminary to UCC this October. This is an unmissable opportunity for our students to experience living, working literature at its transcendent best. Not only is Mike McCormack one of Ireland’s best living writers, he is also one of our most interesting, and it promises to be a special, illuminating evening for us all.”

Tickets are free, but early registration is advised. Register here.

College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences

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College Office, Room G31 ,Ground Floor, Block B, O'Rahilly Building, UCC

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