Imelda May, Lisa O'Neill, Imelda May at Barbican Centre

Recent years have seen a groundswell of women's voices in Irish literature & music, which this special event celebrates, bringing together a stellar cast of women with a lot to say. Imelda May brings her jazz-tinged vocals, following Love. Life. Flesh. Blood, her boldest & most personal album. Lisa O'Neill & Radie Peat (Lankum) breathe life to dark and powerful folk songs. SOAK creates emotional art-pop of startling candour. The words are just as vital as the music. Booker Prize nominated Deborah Levy's titles include Swimming Home, Hot Milk & The Man Who Saw Everything, and acclaimed works of memoir...

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Recent years have seen a groundswell of women's voices in Irish literature & music, which this special event celebrates, bringing together a stellar cast of women with a lot to say. Imelda May brings her jazz-tinged vocals, following Love. Life. Flesh. Blood, her boldest & most personal album. Lisa O'Neill & Radie Peat (Lankum) breathe life to dark and powerful folk songs. SOAK creates emotional art-pop of startling candour. The words are just as vital as the music. Booker Prize nominated Deborah Levy's titles include Swimming Home, Hot Milk & The Man Who Saw Everything, and acclaimed works of memoir. She joins exceptional Irish writers Wendy Erskine (Sweet Home), Sinéad Gleeson (Constellations), Sara Baume (A Line Made by Walking), Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen (Aisling series). Zambian-Irish Denise Chaila blends spoken word & rap to give voice to the sound of a transatlantic odyssey.

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