Author Eoin McNamee reads from his short story collection 'The Comets' at The MAC, as part of the Belfast International Arts Festival.
Eoin McNamee is at The MAC on Saturday 31 October, reading from his short story collection The Comets. It's part of the Belfast International Arts Festival, so it's one of the festival's afternoon slots rather than an evening thing. The reading is in The Studio, and it runs for an hour.
The Comets is set across Ireland and Northern Ireland, and it looks at working-class lives on the borderlands between violence and love. It's a collection of short stories, so you'll get several different pieces rather than one long narrative. McNamee is well known for his novels—he's written eight, including Resurrection Man and The Bureau—and he's been nominated for the Man Booker Prize, won the Kerry Fiction Prize, and picked up the CWA Steel Dagger. Liam McIllvaney has compared his prose to that of McCarthy or DeLillo, and critics have called him one of the most loved literary stylists of contemporary Irish writing and one of the outstanding writers of his generation. He's also worked in the writers' room for Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla, so he's as comfortable with screenwriting as he is with the page.
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The MAC is in the Cathedral Quarter, and it's a proper hub: two theatres, three galleries, a dance studio, and a restaurant all under one roof. Its only permanent artwork is Mark Garry's The Permanent Present. The reading starts at 2:00pm, and tickets are £8, or £6 for concessions.
