Keith Ridgway and Neil Jordan talk to Niall MacMonagle
Date: Saturday 30th May 2026
Venue: St John’s Theatre & Arts Centre
Time: 5.30 PM
Imagining Worlds and Inventing Realities
We are delighted to welcome back to Listowel, twice winner of our Kerry Irish Novel of the Year for Shade and Mistaken, author Neil Jordan. He will discuss his latest novel?The Library of Traumatic Memory,?the first literary science fiction novel from the visionary director of?The Crying Game, Michael Collins and The Butcher Boy. Set in 2084, Christian Cartwright, a quiet librarian at the Huxley Institute archives traumatic memories and, after the mysterious death of his lover Isolde, risks everything by resurrecting her as a digital consciousness to uncover a deeper conspiracy.
Novelist and short story writer, Keith Ridgway is regarded as one of Ireland’s most distinctive literary voices .His debut novel The Long Falling won the prestigious Prix Femina Étranger and Standard Time which won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Today, he presents Dooneen, his dreamlike and inventive novel of dislocation, alternate Dublin realities, and insurgent possibilities.