This event, which was organized by Guy Beiner, the Sullivan Professor in Irish Studies at Boston College, featured notable attendees such as Charles Seelig Professor of Philosophy Richard Kearney, who had given readings of his own novel Salvage a month earlier, and Susan McKay, an Irish author and journalist who was recently appointed Ireland’s press ombudsman. Trespasses has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and has received rave reviews from The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others. Kennedy read excerpts from her novel, Trespasses, at the Connolly House on Friday. “I drew very heavily on my family’s story, or my own childhood,” Kennedy said. According to author Louise Kennedy, the experiences she had as a child living through the Troubles inspired her most recent novel, fostering the creation of a narrative that touches on family and a divided country.
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