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SUMMARY:Molly Keane - 25 March
DESCRIPTION:This event brings together the poets Thomas McCarthy and Virginia Keane Brownlow in conversation with Dorothy Allen to reflect on the life and writing of Molly Keane. Molly Keane was born Molly Skrine in Co Kildare in 1904\, part of what she herself described as “a rather serious hunting\, fishing church going family”. Her mother\, Moira O’Neill was a well known writer\, called the “Poetess of the Glens” and Keane herself published The Knights of Cheerful Countenance in 1926 when she was just seventeen. She used the name of M.J Farrell as a pen name\, reputedly a name she had taken from a pub she spotted one day while out hunting. For Keane\, the male name became a screen for her literary work\, a necessary self protection within the distinctly unliterary anti-intellectual hunting world of the Anglo-Irish in the 1920’s. Comic novels like Young Entry\, (1928)\, Mad Puppetstown\, (1931)\, Devoted Ladies (1934) and Full House\, (1935) established her reputation\, as did her most dramatic novel of the Irish war of Independence\, Two Days in Aragon\, published in 1941. At the same time\, Molly Keane was also a successful dramatist in London’s West End\, working with John Gielgud between 1938 and 1961 to produce a series of commercial hits. After the death of her husband and the failure of a play in 1961\, Molly Keane moved back to Ardmore\, Co Waterford with her two daughters and gave up writing as M.J. Farrell. Finally\, in 1981\, she published\, under her own name\, the novel that is considered her masterpiece\, Good Behaviour and found new inspiration as a novelist in her old age with later novels such as Time After Time\, (1983) and Loving and Giving (1988). Molly Keane died in 1996. \n\nIMAGE: MOLLY KEANE AT VARDMORE IN 1945\, PAINTED BY NORAH MCGUINNESS\nTicket £8 >\n  Speakers:  Thomas McCarthy\n\n\n\n  Tom McCarthy\nThomas McCarthy was educated at University College Cork and worked for many years at Cork City Libraries. His published collections include The First Convention\, The Sorrow Garden\, Lost Province\, Merchant Prince and The Last Geraldine Officer. His Pandemonium\, 2016\, was short-listed for the Irish Times/Poetry Now Award and his new collection\, Prophecy\, was published by Carcanet Press UK in April 2019. Awards include The Patrick Kavanagh Award\, The Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize\, The Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry and the Annual Literary Award of the Ireland Funds. His prose-book\, Poetry\, Memory and the Party\, was published by Gallery Press in 2021. McCarthy was a friend of Molly Keane and remains a great champion of her work. He is a member of Aosdána. \n\nVirginia Keane Brownlow\n\n\n\n  Virginia Keane Brownlow\nVirginia Keane Brownlow is a poet\, daughter of Molly Keane and grand-daughter of Moira O’Neill the Celtic Revival poet. In 2009 Virginia created The Molly Keane Writers’ Retreat with the writers Lani O’Hanlon and Thomas McCarthy. \n\n\nDorothy Allen\n\n\n\n  Dorothy Allen\nDorothy Allen is an award winning journalist\, currently the London correspondent of Swiss magazine Tierwelt. She is a former BBC reporter\, working in documentary programmes for television (Brass Tacks; Panorama) and radio (File on Four). As a print journalist\, she won a Feature Writer of the Year award while reporting for the Burton Daily Mail. She has also written a weekly television review column for The Tablet magazine. Dorothy is a former Vice Chair of the Irish Literary Society. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/molly-keane-25-march/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:biography,feminism,social history,women
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