Getting to Good Friday

Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland

Marilynn Richtarik’s book Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland describes literary reactions and contributions to the peace process during the fifteen years preceding the Agreement and in the immediate post-conflict era, demonstrating the extent to which authors sought both to comment on and to influence contemporary political developments. Through engaging narrative, creative writing emerges as both the medium of and a metaphor for the peace process itself. At The Linen Hall, Professor Richtarik will answer questions about the book and read an extract from it.

About Marilynn Richtarik: 

Marilynn Richtarik’s previous books include Acting Between the Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980-1984, Stewart Parker: A Life, and an edition of Parker’s autobiographical novel Hopdance. She teaches at Georgia State University in Atlanta and spent the first half of 2017 at Queen’s University Belfast as a US Fulbright Scholar.