"Giving Voice to Arts" with Author Mia Gallagher

Arts connect us all and open our minds to new perspectives, cultures, and ideas. In our conversation club Giving Voice to Arts we encourage you to share this experience with each other – and with an artist.

For our monthly sessions, we invite an artist to give insights into their craft and to allow you a glimpse of what happens behind the scenes.

Have an inspiring chat in a relaxed setting. Everyone is welcome, no matter if an art enthusiast or casually interested – we want to hear your take!

Our guest artist for the session in March is the author Mia Gallagher who will give you insights into the art of storytelling.

Mia Gallagher

Mia Gallagher was born in Dublin, where she still lives. She writes novels, short stories and essays and has also devised and written for theatre.

Her books include the novels HellFire (Penguin, 2006) and Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland (New Island, 2016) as well as the short story collection Shift (New Island, 2028) and Dubliners (Marinoni, 2022), a collaboration with visual artist Mario Sughi. Her most recent publications include Two Wheel Better? an essay for the Stinging Fly Winter 2026 / Climate Issue, and Great Beasts of Myth, a short story broadcast on RTÉ Radio. She has just returned to her third novel, which is set in Germany in 1984.

Mia is a recipient of the Irish Tatler Literature Award and the START Short Fiction award, as well as many long- and short-listings. She is a contributing editor with The Stinging Fly and in 2018 was elected as a member of Aosdána.

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