THE INVENTION OF LIAM O’FLAHERTY AND LAUNCHING AN UNKNOWN O’FLAHERTY SATIRE. ‘A Cure for Unemployment’
Thursday, 24 April, 6 – 8 p.m. in Galway City Library.
Free. All welcome
It took a person of courage and understanding to ‘discover’ the forsaken Irish writers in England. One such person, and a key agent in the case of Liam O’Flaherty, was Edward Garnett.
The speaker, Dr Frank Shovlin, is an expert on the subject. He is Senior Lecturer of Irish Literature in English at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool and will give an entertaining and informative, illustrated talk on Edward Garnett and Liam O’Flaherty in England.
In the context of O’Flaherty as a writer in London, the Society is launching, at this event, a hitherto completely unknown satirical text by O’Flaherty – ‘A Cure for Unemployment’. This text is published as one of three satirical texts in the Swiftian mode – one of these is by Swift himself: ‘A Modest Proposal’, a modern take on it by Tomás Mac Síomóin, ‘An Immodest Proposal’ and Liam O’Flaherty’s.
This publication will be launched, quite appropriately, by Terry McDonough, Professor of Economics at NUI Galway.
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