Dara Waldron, author of A SHEEPDOG NAMED OSCAR- a Boswell event

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Thu Oct 30 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

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Boswell Book Company | Milwaukee, WI

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Dara Waldron, author of A SHEEPDOG NAMED OSCAR- a Boswell event
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Boswell Book Company and Celtic MKE present an evening with Dara Waldron, author of A Sheepdog Named Oscar: Love and Companionship in Rural Ireland.

from Boswell. Signed copies are available on most event preorders. If you have a personalization request, enter it in "order comments" at checkout. Please note: signed copies will ship AFTER the event. Remember to select “In Store Pickup” at check out to avoid unnecessary shipping fees on books you intend to pick up at the event.

In spare, lyrical prose and accompanied by cinematic images of Oscar's life, A Sheepdog Named Oscar is more than a story of a man and his dog--it's a meditation on place, memory, the call of the wild, and the quiet strength found in nature and companionship. Waldron crafts a uniquely soulful memoir that explores the emotional terrain of loss and the redemptive power of connection.

“Freely traveling between academic and rural knowledge, Dara Waldron explores the fluid divide between the animal and human world. A Sheepdog Named Oscar also makes you realize how important landscape and weather are to our thinking. His moving book in essence is about responsibility and what it means for humans ‘to take care’.” —Peter Delpeut

Dara Waldron is a film scholar and author of two monographs and multiple articles in international film journals and magazines. His 2018 book New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is a standard reference for documentary filmmaking courses across the globe. He teaches Critical and Contextual studies at Limerick School of Art and Design and has been a visiting Professor at many others. In 2023 he published a study of sheepherding traditions that formed the background for A Sheepdog Named Oscar, his first memoir.

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Boswell Book Company, 2559 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, United States

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