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Troubled Times: Growing Up and Out of the Northern Irish Conflict POSTPONED

Troubled Times: Growing Up and Out of the Northern Irish Conflict POSTPONED
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A personal account of the Northern Ireland conflict in the 80s-90s through the eyes of award-winning fiction writer, Jan Carson.

We all experience varying degrees of familial, communal, cultural, and systemic conflict. How can we be makers of peace? What does healing require? How can healthy community be restored?

Jan Carson grew up in a Protestant market town of Northern Ireland during the 1980s and 90s—decades characterized by political violence and religious conflict, commonly known as The Troubles. The 1998 peace agreement fell just one month after her 18th birthday.

As a writer, Jan does not shy away from addressing the uncomfortable and ugly realities of a conflict-laden culture. In fact, Jan has spent her entire adult life involved in facilitating community arts projects, many of which involve conscious acts of reconciliation, bringing Protestant and Catholic communities together.

Through an illustrated and personal presentation, Jan will give an overview of the Troubles, tracing the history of Northern Ireland into peace time. She will also offer insights from her own experiences of living, working, and writing in Northern Ireland as a person of faith. Examining her own community, Jan will reflect on the role the evangelical church played in the Troubles and post-conflict healing, and consider what might be learned from what happened in this "very troubled wee bit of the world."

Lunch is provided with your ticket purchase.

Speaker Bio

Jan Carson is an award-winning author and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her most recent novel, The Fire Starters (Doubleday 2019), won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland in 2019. She is also the author ofPostcard Stories (Emma Press 2017), a micro-fiction collection; Children’s Children (Liberties Press, 2016), a short story collection; and the novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears (Liberties Press, 2014). Jan has been shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize and in 2016 won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize.

Her work has appeared in journals such as Banshee, The Tangerine, Winter Papers and Harper’s Bazaar and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She is currently working on her first television screenplay for BBC3 and has recently presented a radio documentary for BBC Radio 4. In 2018, Jan was the Irish Writers Centre’s inaugural Roaming Writer in Residence on the trains of Ireland.

As an arts facilitator, Jan has curated the CS Lewis Festival, the Hillsborough Festival of Literature and Ideas, and the inaugural Belfast Lit Crawl. She specializes in arts engagement with older adults and people living with Dementia and has received funding through Queen’s University Belfast to carry out a research project into the representation of Dementia in literature. She has facilitated creative writing workshops for the University of Ulster, Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, John Hewitt Summer School, West Cork Literary Festival and many other universities, festivals and organizations.

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