Screening of I Could Read the Sky, May 14 @ 2.30pm National Museum of Country Life

There is a free screening of the film I Could Read the Sky in the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life on May 14th at 2.30pm.  Booking is Recommended, please contact Mayo Arts Office 094-9047558 | mayoarts@mayococo.ie

I Could Read The Sky (1999) starring Dermot Healy, Stephen Rea and Brendan Coyle is the story of an Irish emigrant struggling to possess his life in acts of memory. He is old. He is alone. He is lying in bed at night in the darkness remembering a life of dislocation, of loss, of descent into madness and of redemption through music and love. The film is based on the book by Steve Pyke and Timothy O ‘Grady and is directed by Nichola Bruce.

Timothy O'Grady is Bealtaine Author in Residence 2015.  Bealtaine celebrates creativity as we age.  Mayo Arts Office are delighted to welcome Timothy to Mayo.  During his visit, he will workshop with Ballycastle Writers' Group.  On May 21st in Ballina Arts Centre at 8pm, he will be joined by world renowned Clare fiddler Martin Hayes for  a reading of I Could Read The Sky and reflect on the experience of Irish emigration, all welcome to the reading which is a free event. Booking is Recommended, please contact Mayo Arts Office 094-9047558 | mayoarts@mayococo.ie

Timothy was born in the USA and has lived in Ireland, London and Spain. He is the author (with Kenneth Griffith) of Curious Journey: An Oral History of Ireland's Unfinished Revolution, and the novels Motherland, which won the David Higham award for the best first novel in 1989, and I Could Read the Sky, which won the Encore award for best second novel of 1997. His book On Golf was published by Yellow Jersey in 2003.