EVENTS
Our next four discussions are with Irish authors discussing their books involving domestic abuse. This series came about through Gabriel Byrne regularly sending links to our Founder+CEO Patrisha McLean of reviews of books in the Irish Times and when she let him know she loved the book, connecting her with the author!
We are thrilled to welcome as a partner in this series, Solas Nua, the Washington DC-based organization devoted to bringing to US audiences the best in Irish arts.
PUT ON SOME GREEN AND JOIN US!
NOVEMBER
November 18 — Online 2 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Eastern Time
Author Talk! Booker-Prize winning author Roddy Doyle will be joining us from Dublin, Ireland to discuss his amazing trilogy on Paula Spencer: The Women Who Walked Into Doors, Paula Spencer, and 2024’s The Women Behind the Door. Register here!
JANUARY
January 20, 2026 — Online 1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Eastern Time
Author Talk! Jacqueline Connelly will be joining us from Ireland over Zoom to talk about Deadly Silence: A Sister's Battle to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of Clodagh and her Sister by Alan Hawe
"The heart-breaking and infuriating account of the domestic violence murder-suicide that rocked Jacqueline's world and also Ireland." Register here!
FEBRUARY
February 5 & 6, 2026
Student Project at Morse High School. Closed event.
MARCH
Tuesday, March 3, 2026 – Online 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Eastern Time
Author Talk! Roisin will be joining us from Ireland over Zoom to discuss her “beautiful, urgent, and ultimately uplifting novel by a rising Irish literary star comes a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over.”
Nesting: A Novel, by Roisín O'Donnell, longlisted for the Women's Prize and an Instant Bestseller in Ireland and the UK. Register here!
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 – Online 1 pm to 2:15 p.m. Eastern Time
Author Talk! Ring of Salt: A Memoir of Finding Home and Hope on the Wild Coast of Ireland by Betsy Cornwell
Betsy Cornwell will be joining us over Zoom to discuss her memoir described as Maid meets Under the Tuscan Sun, about a writer and mother who flees an abusive marriage and must learn to reclaim the story of her life through a search for home on Ireland’s wild, western coast. Register here!

