Part of Dalkey Book Festival

Venue - Dalkey Heritage Centre

Tickets - €18 book via this LINK

In 1958, Terence O’Neill suggested draining Lough Neagh to form a seventh county of Northern Ireland. Jan Carson imagines an alternative version of Northern Ireland’s recent past where this mad plan to drain Lough Neagh goes ahead, exposing an archipelago of tiny islands in the middle of the lake (which really exist) that become home to a community seeking refuge from the Troubles. 

Jan Carson with Barry Devlin