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It's great to see that Garrett Carr's The Boy from the Sea is the Radio Times Book Club selection for May. The BBC Radio 4 adaption continues this week and next, every night at 10:45PM.

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The SHC's Garrett Carr is appearing in Cambridge today, discussing The Boy from the Sea.

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I'll be at the @camlitfest this Saturday 26th April, 12 noon, at the Old Divinity School. I'm appearing with Roisín O'Donnell, author of Nesting, and Louise Hegarty, author of Fair Play. We'll be in conversation with journalist and editor Alex Clark. Come along!

Tickets via: https://t.co/HnkioYdceP

From the festival website: "Ireland has always produced powerful and inventive writers – from reinventors of the form such as James Joyce to barrier-breaking Edna O’Brien and lyrical geniuses Sebastian Barry and Colm Toibin. In recent years, a new generation of novelists has come to the fore – Sally Rooney, Paul Murray and Colin Barrett among them. We’re delighted to play host to three of the brightest debuts of the year from the island of Ireland."

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The SHC's Garrett Carr, author of The Boy from the Sea, will be appearing at two events in England later this week. Links are included in the post.

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I've got two events in England this week. First in Waterstones Salisbury on Thursday evening, 7pm, then at the Cambridge Literary Festival on Saturday the 26th, noon.

https://t.co/9ABwzDlGY6

https://t.co/cNFFXUe9xk

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A list of books by Seamus Heaney Centre students, number 52: AFTER THE PARTY by Sharon Dempsey. "Complex, courageous and hard-hitting ... genuinely unsettling in the way all serious crime fiction should aspire to be," says the Irish Times. Published by @pegasuspublish.

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The SHC's Garrett Carr is heading to the Cúirt International Festival of Literature:

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This Wednesday, April 9th, Roisín O’Donnell and myself will be talking about our new novels with Molly Hennigan in Galway. Come along if you can. Book here:
https://t.co/5T3r58eSha

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Number 51 in my list of books by Seamus Heaney Centre students: FATHER'S FATHER'S FATHER by Dane Holt, published just days ago by @carcanet. "Dane Holt zooms us through the chaos of grief, suspends us from our heels and makes us weep, then forces us to laugh against our will. One of the best debuts I've read in years," says Caroline Bird.

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The #DromoreBookFestival author spotlights continue! I'm very excited for an evening with three incredible writers of stunning fiction @sarahgilmartin_ @CaoilinnHughes & @garrett_carr. It's going to be an unforgettable evening with three literary talents!
https://t.co/v20kESYCvP

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SHC lecturer @garrett_carr will be appearing at the @CuirtFestival of Literature in Galway in an event with Roisín O'Donnell, author of Nesting, on April 9th. Info here:

https://t.co/vXMmzgI1JD

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SHC Lecturer in Creative Writing @garrett_carr wrote about writing and dyslexia for @DUALIPA 's culture website @service95 . https://t.co/jQyKW0mTed

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London - next Wednesday - come along!! 🫠☘️

https://t.co/oRmDfcU6n0 @garrett_carr @suzifeay @WstoneIslington @IrelandEmbGB @OneworldNews

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I'm looking forward to visiting Bath to talk about The Boy from the Sea. My event is at @ToppingsBath on Monday March 17th, 7PM. Info here:

https://t.co/ZJZ3ckqJpn

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QUB Creative Writing lecturer Garrett Carr remembers Donegal's Muckross Head in this short piece for Boundless: https://t.co/6K5SY49mOB

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We've reached big number 50 in my list of books by Seamus Heaney Centre students: BUT & THROUGH by Jake Hawkey, @hawkstar5000. Published yesterday by @picadorbooks. "Hawkey's poems are electric, buzzing with all the possibilities of language. He has much to say, and is saying it brilliantly," says Nick Laird.

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Tonight in Waterstones, Fountain Street, Belfast, SHC lecturer @garrett_carr will be speaking about his new novel The Boy from the Sea. Free and all welcome. 7pm.

“A surprising, tender and warm-hearted novel about a real place and real people” – The Guardian

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SHC lecturer Garrett Carr discussed his novel The Boy from the Sea on the radio yesterday.

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My wife enjoyed this photo. She says it looks like I'm Oliver's dad, proudly bringing him to school.

Oliver Callan and I had a great conversation on RTE Radio yesterday.

https://t.co/9Kd7uFx07n

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Rebecca Hunter, one of my PhD students, and a marine biologist, has a great essay in the Irish Times this weekend.

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We're launching @garrett_carr's The Boy from the Sea in the SHC on February 6th.

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My sketches of the trawlers in The Boy from the Sea. The novel is coming soon from Picador and Knopf.

"[The novel's] language and sensibility reflects the sly humour of its Donegal setting, and the reader is riveted by the heroic efforts of its characters to hold on to one another in the face of the gale-force winds of historical change.” Niamh Mulvey, author of The Amendments

“Compulsive reading ... Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment” Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses

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Just spotted in @Wstones_Forest , THE MANY GHOSTS OF DONAHUE BYRNES by Laura McLoughlin is number 49 in my list of books by our former students. "A unique twist on the traditional haunted house tale," says Anne Corlett. Published @bwpublishing

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Congratulations to Susannah Dickey on winning the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize which we celebrated on Monday night with a number of friends of the Seamus Heaney Centre and beyond.
https://t.co/qlbG3Vnw8y