Sinéad Morrissey and Joe Dunthorne in Conversation

Mick Lally Theatre

Mick Lally Theatre, Ireland

Join Sinéad Morrissey and Joe Dunthorne to discuss their new memoirs about individual and collective inheritance and familial love and loss. Sinead Morrissey’s Among Communists, is set against the distinctive cultural milieu of Belfast Communism – its smokey rooms, protests, marches, sports days, holidays, discos and Party bazaars – telling a history of the Troubles unlike any other. Joe Dunthorne’s Children of Radium tells the story of his eccentric great-grandfather, a Jewish scientist who invented radioactive toothpaste and possessed a troublingly encyclopedic knowledge of poison gases. Considering the long half-life of trauma and the ever-evasive nature of truth, this book is witty and wry, deeply humane and endlessly surprising. In association with the Welsh Government