EVENTS
The next three Author Talks in the online Finding Our Voices book club where authors join us to talk about the domestic abuse in their books, are with Irish authors.
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!
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
Deadly Silence is the 2025 Nonfiction Book of the Year in the Irish Book Awards.
“The heart-breaking and infuriating account of the domestic violence murder-suicide that rocked Jacqueline's world and also Ireland." Register here!
January 21
Student Project at Unity Ecology Learning Center. Closed event.
January 28
Student Project at Unity Ecology Learning Center. Closed event.
FEBRUARY
February 5 & 6, 2026
Student Project at Morse High School. Closed event.
February 26
Carrabec Middle School in North Anson. 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, winner of Novel of the Year in the 2025 Irish Book Awards. Register here!
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 – Online 1 p.m. 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!
APRIL
April 1 & 2
Student Project at Richmond High School. Closed event.
MAY
Monday, May 12 – Online 6 p.m.
Author Talk! Beth Macy, author of the bestselling investigation of the opioid crisis
Dopesick, will join us to talk about the domestic violence weaving through her 2025 memoir of "home and family in a fractured America".
"In her new book Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as ground zero for understanding right-wing radicalization." – The New Yorker