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SUMMARY:A Thread of Violence - 25 Sept
DESCRIPTION:Mark O’Connell’s latest book\, A Thread of Violence\, concerns the murders committed by Malcolm Macarthur in 1982 of a nurse\, Bridie Gargan\, and a farmer\, Dónal Dunne. It is both an utterly compelling account of one of Ireland’s most notorious crimes and an interrogation of the nature of true crime writing itself. When Macarthur\, the heir to a small fortune\, found himself suddenly without money\, he decided to rob a bank. To do this\, he would need a gun and a car. In the process of procuring them\, he killed two people\, and the circumstances of his eventual arrest nearly brought down the Irish government. When Mark O’Connell set out to unravel the mysteries still surrounding these horrific and inexplicable crimes\, he tracked down Macarthur himself\, living out his days in Dublin. O’Connell will be in conversation with Brian Dillon. In A Thread of Violence Mark O’Connell has investigated\, with immense skill and insight\, the mind of a double murderer\, and in the process has shown the essential mysteriousness of such a mind-perhaps of any mind. The result is a beautifully wrought narrative that is at once frightening and thrilling. A masterly workJohn Banville\n\nThis event will be followed by a signing and a book sale. \n \n  \n  Speakers:  Mark O'Connell\n\n\n\n  Mark O’Connell\nMark O’Connell is an award-winning Irish writer. He previously visited the ILS to discuss his first book\, To Be a Machine\, which won the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. In 2019\, he became the first ever non-fiction writer to win the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His second book\, Notes From an Apocalypse was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. He is a contributor to the New York Review of Books\, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker. \n\nBrian Dillon\n\n\n\n  Brian Dillon Name\nProf Dillon studied English and Philosophy at University College Dublin\, and completed a Ph.D. (on concepts of time in twentieth-century criticism and theory) at the University of Kent in 1999. Before joining Queen Mary in 2019\, he was head of the Writing programme at the Royal College of Art. His first book\, a memoir titled In the Dark Room\, was published in 2005. His creative and critical writing has appeared in publications such as the Guardian\, The London Review of Books\, Artforum\, The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Granta and The White Review. Dillon has curated exhibitions for Tate and Hayward galleries\, and is an editor at Cabinet\, an arts and culture magazine based in New York. \n\n\n\n\nTickets at our Shop page.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/a-thread-of-violence-25-sept/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell St\, London\, WC1B 3NN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:crime,history,interview,research,social history
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