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...talking to the dead
The Kate O'Brien Weekend
Limerick
City Gallery of Art,
Pery Square, Limerick
St. Michael's Church,
Pery Square,
Limerick
22, 23, 24 February
2002
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Kate O'Brien
Kate O'Brien was born into a prosperous Limerick family in 1897.
She began her writing career in 1926 and Without
My Cloak, a novel written in 1930, was her first best seller.
Other works include The Ante Room, That Lady,
The Land of Spices and The Last of Summer.
Although frequently returning to Limerick, the inspiration for much
of her work, Kate O'Brien spent the latter part of her life in England.
She died in 1974.
'the dark was talking to the dead;
the lamp was dark beside my bed
come back early or never come'
from Autobiography by Louis MacNeice
The Kate O'Brien Weekend 2002
In 1984 Arlen House held a seminar in Limerick to mark the tenth
anniversary of Kate O'Brien's death, Arising from the success of this
event, the Kate O'Brien Committee was formed and it was decided to
hold an annual literary weekend in Limerick in honour of the city's
most famous deceased author.
The theme of the eighteenth Kate O'Brien Weekend is ...talking
to the dead
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