The Friends of the Library – Trinity College Dublin are delighted to announce their next lecture from the autumn/winter programme. Admission is €5 (Members & Concessions €2.50). All welcome! Enquiries to 01 8961544 or LibraryFriends@tcd.ie.
The Creation of a Writer: Bram Stoker and Trinity College Dublin by Paul Murray
19:30, Thursday 24 November 2016
Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Paul Murray, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, is a writer and former diplomat. His biography, From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker, was published (Jonathan Cape: London) in 2004 and was republished this year by Fitz-Press. His previous biography, A Fantastic Journey: The Life and Literature of Lafcadio Hearn (UK, 1993; USA, 1997; Japan, 2000) won the 1995 Koizumi Yakumo Literary Prize in Japan and was awarded the Lord Mayor of Dublin’s Commendation the same year. His selection of the horror writings of Lafcadio Hearn was published as Nightmare-Touch in 2010. His play, Gothic Horror: the Dublin Haunting of Lafcadio Hearn, was performed in Dublin in recent years. Murray served in the Irish diplomatic service from 1972 to 2012, and was Ambassador of Ireland to South Korea from 1999 to 2004. He was also appointed Ireland’s first Ambassador to the DPRK in 2004.