Sally Hayden: This is Also a Love Story
- €18
- Marino Church, Bantry
- 13/07/2026 - 2:30 pm
This is Also a Love Story: Searching for Good in a Divided World is the brand-new book by award-winning international correspondent Sally Hayden. We live in an era defined by crisis – whether it be war and displacement, or climate collapse and rapidly widening inequality. Sally has spent her career covering some of the darkest moments of our time, and yet even in the face of unimaginable adversity, she’s witnessed the love and care of everyday people.
In stories that crisscross the globe, from Uganda to Lebanon, Rwanda to Iraq, Sally asks us: what if news was recounted through the prism of the actions people take for those they love? Would it become harder to dehumanise those who seem different to us? This is Also a Love Story dares us to recognise how connection, self-sacrifice and love can be found in even the most difficult of times, and – as a result – to question what might be needed to create a better world.
Sally will be in conversation with Maeve Higgins
In This is Also a Love Story, Sally introduces us to a couple separated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a mother in northeast Nigeria who risks everything to save her daughter from forced marriage to Boko Haram militants. We meet a group of Syrian women searching tirelessly for their missing spouses and children, while launching a call for justice, and learn about letters from the bereaved to the dead, still being written over a decade after the tsunami that devastated Japan.
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Sally Hayden
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