The Sentence and the Self, John Banville and Victoria Kennefick in conversation, for the Irish Writers Centre

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Sunday 12 July 2026

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3:00 pm

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‘In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there,’ John Banville.

Swimming out into a conversational ocean of literary and legacy, novelist John Banville and poet Victoria Kennefick come together on behalf of the Irish Writers Centre to explore the poetics of prose, passions, and the impossibility of doing anything else other than writing.

This event is supported by the Irish Writers Centre

Admission: €15

Writers

John Banville

John Banville is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and book reviewer. He worked in journalism for many years, and was literary editor at The Irish Times from 1988 to 2000. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, New Statesman and other journals. His latest novel is Venetian...

Victoria Kennefick

Dr Victoria Kennefick’s debut poetry collection, Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of...

The Sentence and the Self, John Banville and Victoria Kennefick in conversation, for the Irish Writers Centre

Time and date

Location

Writers

John Banville

Victoria Kennefick

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