Book Launch at DCU
Silver Thread are delighted to announce the launch of two books of memoir, on Saturday, March 5th, from 2 – 4pm, in room HG22 (School of Nursing building) on DCU Glasnevin campus (Collins Ave Ext. Entrance)
In No Admittance Except on Business, Christine O’Flynn takes us to County Cork, to her beloved Monard Mills, home to her family for many generations. The Mills and their surroundings are both the background and a main character in this memoir, at the intersection of place and memory. Lovingly rendered with the clear view of her bright childhood, Christine brings to life Monard Mills and those who lived there, through stories of school, home, family gatherings, work, marriage and other adventures. This memoir is also a journey for the author; a journey in time and place, and a journey in writing, inspired by the memoir written by her mother when she was in her seventies. Mam’s Journal forms the second part of this book, where Ann Hayes, Christine’s mother, takes us even further back in time, to the early 20th century. No Admittance Except on Business is a rich family history, an exploration of place, childhood and the everyday, and it will give the reader a sense of time and the importance of the roots that anchor us.
Bitumen & Pitch is a poetry collection and memoir of a woman relearning who she is. Three weeks before her mother’s death with dementia, Eithne de Lacy, then forty-three years of age, discovered that she had been adopted as a baby. Seventeen years later, she put pen to paper. Calling on the Irish language, religious iconography, myths, stories and childhood, these poems, filled with scents and sounds, colour and wonder, are an exploration of a daughter, the mother she knew, and the mother she never met.