LAUNCH: Custom of the Coast by Paul Muldoon
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We are delighted to present a very special Saturday afternoon event with Paul Muldoon and The Gallery Press, celebrating the publication of Muldoon’s Custom of the Coast, with illustrations by Martin Gale.
In Paul Muldoon’s typically inventive drama for two voices, one strand recounts the adventures of Anne Bonny, an eighteenth- century pirate from County Cork who roamed the Caribbean until, after being apprehended, her death sentence was commuted because she ‘pleaded the belly’. A parallel strand reports the shameful case in which the lost pregnancy of an Indian dentist in Galway, Savita Halappanavar, became her death sentence because the law in Catholic Ireland of that time forbade a termination to save the mother’s life.
Paul Muldoon will read from his book in our first floor café space at 2.30pm on Saturday 17th of August. Admission is free but booking is essential.
*Please note the café will close at 2pm on this date to prepare for the reading. Coffee will not be served during the event.
