Join us for this free panel discussion in tandem with One Dublin One Book
Deirdre Madden’s Authenticity and Niamh Campbell’s We Were Young both feature creatives living and working in Dublin, who are facing challenges in their work.
Join the authors along with artist, researcher and educator, Silvia Loeffler, in conversation with writer and critic Niall MacMonagle. They will consider how the city inspires and influences the artist, and how this may be changing.
Deirdre Madden is a novelist whose works include Molly Fox’s Birthday and Time Present and Time Past. She was the recipient of a 2024 Windham Campbell Award for Fiction and is a member of Aosdána. She is also a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, where she taught Creative Writing for over twenty years. A study of her work, Deirdre Madden: New Critical Perspectives (eds Anne Fogarty and Marisol Morales-Ladrón) was published in 2022 by Manchester University Press.
Niamh Campbell is the author of This Happy (2020) and We Were Young (2022). She has won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and been nominated for the An Post Irish Book Awards, Kate O’Brien Award, Kerry Group
Irish Novel of the Year Award, and the John McGahern Book Prize. Her third novel is forthcoming in spring 2026 with Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Dr Silvia Loeffler is an artist, researcher and educator who works across disciplines to map the psychology of a space and its people. She is a lecturer in Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) , and her arts practice is based on collaborations with community members to create layered, site-specific installations that honour the participants’ sense of place and their emotional responses to their environment.
