Speakers: Ruth Gilligan, Simon Lewis, Jonathan Self

Through their respective works of fiction and poetry, Ruth Gilligan and Simon Lewis tell haunting stories of Ireland’s once-thriving Jewish communities. Ruth Gilligan’s beautiful and heartbreaking novel Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan spans three generations of Dublin Jews, intertwining their narratives and posing fierce questions about identity and belonging. Simon Lewis’s award-winning collection of exquisite poems, Jewtown, evokes the vanished community of Cork. In conversation with journalist and resident of County Cork Jonathan Self.