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Peter Sirr’s Intimate City considers the city as a layered place, a physical space reverberating with the presence of history, ideas, and the people who walked there. In Belinda McKeon’s For Keeps our protagonist returns from abroad, navigating a city full of memories as she reconnects with an old flame. Join the authors and neuroscientist Shane O’Mara in conversation with Garrett Fagan as they consider how the faces and places of a city interact with our memory.

The Gallery Press have published eleven poetry collections by Peter Sirr, most recently The Swerve, (2023). A collection of essays about Dublin, Intimate City, was published in 2021. He teaches literary translation in Trinity College, Dublin and is a member of Aosdána.

Belinda McKeon is a novelist and playwright. Her novels are Solace (Picador, 2011) and Tender (2015). She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Maynooth University.

Shane O’Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research at in the Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. His most recent book (2024) is Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds, available widely.

Garrett Fagan has taught at universities in Dublin and at Warwick University in the UK.  Garrett is teaching a course of four classes in April at Pearse St Library on this years One Dublin One Book choice, Dublin, written in our hearts.