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Neil Hegarty at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace

December 2022
Neil Hegarty, Nora Hickey M'Sichili, Brian McGilloway, and Nandi Jola discuss the writing of 'Impermanence' with Denzil McDaniel.
seamusheaneyhome.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873629045

Neil Hegarty at the Belfast Festival

October 2022
Neil Hegarty joins Gail McConnell and Maria McManus to discuss the themes and context of 'Impermanence' with Denzil McDaniel.
belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/event/conversations-on-impermanence/

Neil Hegarty and Mona de Pracontal at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

October 2022
Neil Hegarty and Mona de Pracontal discuss the translation of Inch Levels into La surface de l'eau, published by Editions Joelle Losfeld on 6 October 2022.
www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/whats-on/exhibitions-events/rencontre-avec-neil-hegarty

'Do better': A new essay in The Stinging Fly

July 2022
Neil Hegarty contributes to an essay season in The Stinging Fly, with reflections on the effects of time, patience, and self-knowledge. stingingfly.org/2022/07/28/notes-on-rejection/

Excellent reviews of Impermanence

July 2022
The first reviews of Impermanence are full of praise. 'A wide-ranging, moving and beautifully written series of reflections on friendship, family, place and society,' writes the Irish Times.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2022/07/23/impermanence-lifts-us-up-and-beyond-the-enclosed-and-the-inevitable/?

'Supple, subtle, and surprising,' writes the Irish Independent.
www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/impermanence-what-lies-north-of-the-border-depends-on-whos-looking-41839601.html

RTE Sunday Miscellany feature

July 2022
Neil Hegarty's radio feature on 'la mer d'Iroise'
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22116280/

Primadonna Festival lineup announcement

July 2022
Neil Hegarty appears at this summer's Primadonna Festival, Suffolk.
www.primadonnafestival.com/year-2022/

Salon de Livre Insulaire, France

July 2022
Neil Hegarty appears at the Salon de Livres, Ouessant, France
fr.calameo.com/read/006272294d0721d811eb5

Publication of Impermanence

June 2022
Impermanence, a new collection of essays edited by Neil Hegarty and Nora Hickey M'Sichili, and published by No Alibis Press and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, is launched in Paris. Impermanence features essays by Jan Carson, Carlo Gebler, Henrietta McKervey, Nandi Jola, Gail McConnell, Neil Hegarty, Susannah Dickey, Maria McManus, Susan McKay, Paul McVeigh, Brian McGilloway, and Kerri ni Dochartaigh.
www.noalibispress.com/news/new-publication-impermanence

Residency on the isle of Ouessant, France

June 2022
Neil Hegarty is awarded the Sémaphore du Creac’h writers' residency.
www.livre-insulaire.fr/

Focus on Northern Ireland at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

June 2022
Neil Hegarty takes part in a soirée of visual arts, literature, music and film from Northern Ireland.
www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/whats-on/exhibitions-events/regards-sur-lirlande-du-nord/

Neil Hegarty judges Irish Novel Fair 2022

February 2022
Neil Hegarty, Cauvery Madhavan and Gavin Corbett select the twelve Novel Fair finalists.
www.irishwriterscentre.ie/12-emerging-writers-selected-as-the-winners-of-novel-fair-2022/

Neil Hegarty on Shelfmarks podcast, with Zoe Comyns and Royal Irish Academy

December 2021
New writing plus discussion of the Anthropocene, nature, and the climate crisis.
www.ria.ie/news/publications/shelfmarks-neil-hegarty

Queer Love: Emma Donoghue and Neil Hegarty in conversation with Paul McVeigh at the Dublin Book Festival 2021

8 November, 7pm-8pm GMT
Free
ONLINE EVENT
More information: dublinbookfestival.com/programme/queer-love/

Neil Hegarty reviews The New Frontier: Reflections from the Irish Border

Irish Times, 24 October 2021.
Read the review here:
irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-new-frontier-reflections-from-the-irish-border-true-north-1.4696516

Border Literatures - Online Reading and Conversation Series, September 2021 - March 2022

Wednesday 20 October, 7pm

Register for this event
Neil Hegarty and Elizabeth Mannion in conversation about Andrea Carter's Death at Whitewater Church: An Inishowen Mystery. Moderated by Liam McIlvanney.
More information: www.nli.ie/en/border-literatures.aspx

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