Claire Keegan in conversation with Sheila Forsey as part of the Bealtaine Festival 2023.Claire Keegan’s stories are translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize, awarded to the best collection of stories published in the British Isles.Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award, one of the richest literary prizes in the world, and was last year chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty- first century. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, and for the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language, and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. A film production based on this novella is currently being made in New Ross starring Cillian Murphy and Emily Watson.Sheila Forsey is the author of four novels – The Lake House of Lenashee, The Secret of Evaline House, Kilbride House and Mending Lace and her work has reached the Irish Times Best Sellers list. Her writing has received numerous acclaimed reviews for giving a visual and textured insight into Ireland’s past in the last century. She is also a playwright and a tutor in creative writing. She is an honours graduate in creative writing from Maynooth University and is currently undertaking a post graduate study in Trinity College Dublin. This event is in association with Bealtaine Festival and The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon#artscouncilIreland #ArtsIreland
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