Please join us in The Creative Zone, Boole Library, UCC, for a very special literary evening with two of Ireland's most exciting young novelists: Clara Kumagai + John Patrick McHugh presented by UCC School of English & Digital Humanities.
Tickets are free from Eventbrite.
THE WRITERS
Clara Kumagai is from Canada, Japan and Ireland. Her debut novel, Catfish Rolling, received the 2024 KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year Award. Her second novel, Songs for Ghosts, was named one of the Best Irish Books of 2025 by Children’s Books Ireland, and has been longlisted for the 2026 YOTO Carnegie Medal for Writing.
John Patrick McHugh is from Galway. His work has appeared in the Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, Banshee, Tolka, and Granta and been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He is the author of the short story collection Pure Gold and the novel Fun and Games.
THE WORK
Songs For Ghosts is full of longing, love and heartbreak, inspired by Puccini's Madame Butterfly. When Japanese-American teenager, Adam, discovers a diary in his attic, he is enthralled by its account of a young Japanese woman's
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