Novelist Nessa to share stories of Ballinasloe’s troubled times
Dublin-based writer Nessa O’Mahony is the next guest in artist collective Group 8’s Art & Words series of talks in Ballinasloe.
The event will take place in Gullane’s Hotel, Ballinasloe, on International Women’s Day, next Friday March 8, at 7pm. Nessa will give a reading from her début crime novel The Branchman and will be interviewed by Group 8 member, Nuala O’Connor.
The Branchman was published in late 2018 by Arlen House. Set in Ballinasloe in 1925, it features Detective Michael Mackey, ex-British Army and Civil War veteran and one of the first members of the Free State’s new elite Special Branch. Mackey is assigned to the Garda Barracks in Ballinasloe and uncovers a plot by subversives to disrupt the peace. The novel is inspired by the real-life adventures of Nessa’s grandfather, Michael McCann, who was a member of the original Special Branch and was stationed as a Garda in Ballinasloe from 1929 to 1945.
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.
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