Join us for a Saturday afternoon talk, as part of a series of talks in tandem with the exhibition Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: The Dream Pool Intervals; programmed with curator Sara Muthi.
These weekend, afternoon talks and presentations bring together authors and artists whose work moves between fiction, visual culture, and critical theory, exploring how we make sense of the world through narrative, memory, and the shifting aesthetics of the past and the digital age.
‘A Problem Wolf’ with writer Sue Rainsford
Saturday 19 July, 2.30-3.30pm
The last grey wolf was killed in Ireland in 1786. His death at the edge of a stream in Carlow remains indelibly bound to the arboreal annihilation of Ireland conducted by Ellizaeth I and the Norman supplanting of Brehon Law in 1169AD. Written in the vein of Catherine Lacey’s Autobiography of X, A Problem Wolf is a new piece of writing detailing the taxonomy and history of the quaestio lupum, a species of wolf that survived the ultimate extinction of Ireland’s grey wolf under Cromwellian Rule. By tracking the rogue, watchful animal as it lopes through deforested terrain, contemporary artworks and historical ruins, A Problem Wolf employs the wolf as a cipher to move through questions of colonial destruction and post-colonial loss.
Free, book on Eventbrite or come on the day, subject to availability.
Sue Rainsford is an Irish novelist and art writer. She is a recipient of the VAI/DCC Art Writing Award, the Arts Council Literature Bursary Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, the Kate O’Brien Award and le Prix Imaginales Award. Her work has also been nominated for the Republic of Consciousness Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Prix Jean Monnet des Jeunes Européens and the New York Radio Festival Awards. Notable commissions include RTÉ Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4, and she has been writer in residence at Maynooth University and UCD. She is the author of two novels, Follow Me To Ground and Redder Days, both of which have been translated into French.
Free, book on Eventbrite or come along on the evening, space is limited.
