b'MONACO AROUND THE WORLD TheIrelandFundofMonacoResidentialBursariesCOMING IN APRIL 21, 2015A TALK AND READINGS FROMHOME FROM ENGLAND BY JAMES RYAN, DIRECTOR OF THE CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAMME, SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, DRAMA AND FILM, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLINThe Princess Grace Irish Library, under the Aegis of the Fondation Princesse Grace, is delighted to announce James Ryan as the 2015 Ireland Fund of Monaco Academic in Residence. James will lecture in April at the Library and all are invited to attend. Why did the Irish experienceIn his landmark history, Ireland 1912-1985, Politics and Society; Profes-sor Joseph Lee states that the imprint left by emigration will featureof emigration, so prevalent inprominently as the archaeology of the modern Irish mind comes to beexcavated, further adding that it is to the writers the historian must turn, the post war period, featureas usual, for the larger truth.Quite an accolade for the writers, but on the issue in question so rarely in the literature ofit may not be deserved. The generation of writers which might have been expected to produce the larger truth about emigration from the war years the time? Author James Ryan to the early nineteen sixties did not make a conspicuous attempt to do so.In exploring the reasons for this, James Ryan hopes to present animportantdimensionoftwentieth-centuryIrishliterarylife,whilesimultaneously creating the backdrop to a series of short readings from his first novel, an emigration narrative, Home from England.HisnovelsincludeHomefromEngland(Phoenix,Lon-don1995),DismantlingMrDoyle(Phoenix,London1997),Seedsof Doubt (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2001) and South of the Border(Lilliput, Dublin 2008). The novel on which he is currently working,Talking to Strangers, is due for publication in 2015.HewasmarriedtothelateCarolineWalsh,LiteraryEditorof the Irish Times from 1999 to 2011. Based in Dublin, James is actively involved in the literary life of the city.To attend on April 21, 2015, kindly RSVP to: Princess Grace Irish Library9 rue Princesse Marie-de-LorraineMonaco-VilleMC 98000 Principaut de MonacoTel +377 93 50 12 25pglib@monaco.mcwww.pgil.mcconnect2015 | 97'