What makes the college campus such fertile ground for stories? Three authors who’ve written about campus culture, Roisin Kiberd (Bad Quarto, published in The Dublin Review, number seventy-four | SPRING 2019), Louise Nealon (Snowflake), Declan Toohey (Perpetual Comedown) read and discuss their work with historian and novelist Juliana Adelman.
This event is a partnership between Dublin Book Festival and Dublin City University as part of The Artist and The City, a day-long public symposium focussing on Dublin’s Northside.
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Louise Nealon is a writer from County Kildare. She has a degree in English literature from Trinity College Dublin and a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Queen’s University Belfast. In 2017, she won the Cork International Short Story Competition. Her debut novel, Snowflake, released in May 2021,won Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Book Awards and was chosen for the One Dublin One Book campaign in2024.Louise is currently based in Belfast where she is working on her second novel.
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Declan Toohey is from County Kildare. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in Tolka, The Irish Times, Channel and elsewhere. In 2021 he was a winner of the IWC Novel Fair, and in 2022 he won the Maeve Binchy Travel Award. An MFA graduate of University College Dublin, he is the recipient of an Agility Award and a Literature Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. His first novel, Perpetual Comedown, was published by New Island Books in February 2023.
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Roisin Kiberd has written essays and features for The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review, Winter Papers, The White Review, the Guardian and The New York Times, among other places. She is the non-fiction editor of The Stinging Fly, and lectures in creative writing at the University of Galway. Her first book, The Disconnect: a personal journey through the Internet was published by Serpent’s Tail in 2021.
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Juliana Adelman, originally from Concord, Massachusetts, is an Assistant Professor of History at DCU. Her debut novel, The Grateful Water, was published in June by New Island Books. She has authored two nonfiction books and has written a history column for the Irish Times. With degrees from Stanford, Dublin City University, and the University of Galway, Juliana is currently working on her second novel and studying for an MA in Creative Writing.
