Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride Takes on Fellowship at Samuel Beckett Research Centre

By Mary Gallagher, Editorial Assistant
February / March 2018

January 29, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Award-winning Irish novelist Eimear McBride (right) has been named the inaugural recipient of the University of Reading Samuel Beckett Research Center Creative Fellowship, which provides exclusive access to Beckett’s archives. McBride, whose debut novel A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing won the Goldsmiths Prize in 2013 and the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, will research … [Read more...] about Eimear McBride Takes on Fellowship at Samuel Beckett Research Centre

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By Cahir O'Doherty, Contributor
June / July 2016

June 1, 2016 by Leave a Comment

A conversation with Annie Ryan about her brilliant adaptation of Eimear McBride’s novel, A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing, and Aoife Duffin, the young actress who gave life to the words on stage. ℘℘℘ When theater director Annie Ryan approached novelist Eimear McBride to discuss bringing her award-winning debut novel A Girl Is A Half- Formed Thing to the stage, McBride had one … [Read more...] about Girl Talk

January 30, 1972

On this day in 1972, great tragedy struck Derry, Northern Ireland in an event which history would remember as Bloody Sunday. Twenty-six unarmed protesters were shot by the British Army during a Nothern Ireland Civil Rights Association march. A total of fourteeen were killed, the marjority of whom were under the age of 25 at the time. The tragedy was highly publicized due to the military involvement and was responsible for turning the gaze of the world to the conflict. Often considered the pivotal event on the conflict known as the Troubles, Bloody Sunday is a day that lives in infamy in for all in the British Isles.

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