‘Crime in the City: Crime & History’ is a series of upcoming talks being organised in the Central Library, inside of the Ilac Centre.
All of the talks are free to attend and I’m actually giving one myself, which will focus on the ‘Animal Gang’, anti-communism and gang violence in 1930s Dublin. Also speaking are some of my favourite authors and bloggers, including Finbar from the Irish History Podcast on the subject of crime in medieval Dublin, and Joe Joyce, author of a brilliant biography of the Guinness family and a regular contributor to The Irish Times.
All talks take place on Thursday’s, and kick off at 1pm. My talk is designed to tie-in with the recent release of Locked Out: A Century of Irish Working-Class Life, which includes a chapter from me on the ‘Animal Gang’. Feel free to attend, but also please inform others who you think may be interested.
Trouble in the 1930s!
Joe Joyce: 3rd October
Joe is author of ‘The Boss’, ‘The Trigger Man’, ‘The Guinnesses: the untold story of Ireland’s most successful family’ and ‘The Tower’. His most recent book ‘Echoland’ is set in a divided Dublin in June 1940.
Donal Fallon: 10th October
Donal is co-author of ‘Come Here To Me: Dublin’s Other History’ and a regular contributor to the ‘Come here to Me’ blog. He will speak on ‘The Animal Gangs’ and gang violence in 1930’s Dublin.
Michael Russell: 17th October
Michael is author of ‘City of Shadows’ and the sequel ‘City of Strangers’. Both books are set in 1930’s Dublin. ‘City of Strangers’ will be published in November 2013. ‘City of Shadows’ was longlisted for a (Crime Writers Association) John Creasey Award in the UK this year.
Finbar Dwyer: 24th October
Finbar is an historian and founder of http://www.irishhistorypodcast.ie. His forthcoming book is called ‘Witches, Heretics and Stockholm Syndrome: Stories from Medieval Ireland’.
Kevin McCarthy: 31st October
Kevin is the author of the historical crime novels ‘Peeler’ and ‘Irregulars’. ‘Irregulars’ was released in May and is a detective story centred in the Monto and set during the civil war in 1922.
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Damn I wish these talks weren’t on during my working week 😦
Yep, I know the feeling! I suppose the idea is lunchtime but all depends when you have your lunch and where you work.
Aye, same with the friends of medieval dublin talks in DCC, always sad to miss them. Damn I wish I got a lunchtime that wasn’t rushed and sporadic! Someone could make a fine blog filming these talks and putting em up online.