Doire Press: Claire Hennessy & Jennifer Horgan
- €12
- The Maritime Hotel
- 11/07/2025 - 3:00 pm
Welcome to our annual presentation of new writing published by Doire Press, a Connemara-based publisher of award-winning Irish poetry and short story collections. We are joined by short story writer Claire Hennessy and poet Jennifer Horgan.
In the Movie of Her Life, Claire Hennessy’s adult fiction debut, is a work of edgy, voice-driven short stories that go to dark places with gut-wrenching honesty that few writers can master. Haunted by the gap between what they imagined their lives would be and what they really are, Claire’s characters grapple with unspeakable longings and quiet devastation.
Care is the debut collection by Cork-based poet Jennifer Horgan. Through her work born of personal experience and characterised by arresting imagery, Jennifer calls on us to reconcile and to unite—to care. This is a hopeful collection, intent on championing the goodness in people, deftly highlighting our propensity towards kindness and away from hate. Care is a hand stretched across whatever it is that divides us, extended with a delicacy of spirit and unwavering hope.
Claire and Jennifer will be in conversation with Sue Leonard.
Claire Hennessy’s short story college is set in 21st century Dublin as an aspiring comedian puts her career on hold in favour of her boyfriend’s, all the while pretending to ignore his disdain for her day job that holds them together; a lonely young teacher tries to distract herself from a crush on one of her secondary school students; and a single mother in desperate need of one good night out dodges questions about her struggling child on a first date. In other realities, a group of girls persuade themselves a classmate’s death had nothing to do with them or their merciless pact; a young woman lives out what’s supposed to be the last hours of her life at an end of the world party; and a wicked stepmother forges a connection with the witch hiding in the forest.
This event is supported by Doire Press
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Claire Hennessy
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Jennifer Horgan
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