Omagh - 5 Books That Could Save Your Life
About this Event
The ‘5 Books That Could Save Your Life’ tour 2026 will arrive at the Strule Arts Centre Omagh on 25 November at 10.30 am.
This innovative cross-border project will explore an all-island approach to tackling coercive control and domestic homicide.
A moderated panel will discuss key books, raising awareness of coercive control, its links to domestic homicide, and the role men can play in the response to domestic abuse. The panel will include Corrinne Hasson, Executive Director of The National Women’s Council; Kerrie Flood, CEO, Fermanagh & Omagh Women’s Aid; Noelle Collins, Training and Programmes Manager from Belfast & Lisburn Women’s Aid and Barney McElhom, retired District Judge Derry.
Madeline Mc Aleer, CEO of Haven Horizons, will give the keynote speech.
The 5 selected books are a mixture of memoir, fiction and books by experts and practitioners in the field. They include:
- In Control, Dangerous Relationships and how they end in M**der’ by Professor Jane Monckton Smith, an academic focusing on the link between coercive control and domestic homicide
- ‘Invisible Chains’ by psychologist Dr Lisa Aronson Fontes
- ‘Deadly Silence: A Sister’s Battle to Uncover the Truth Behind the M**der of Clodagh and Her Sons by Alan Hawe’ by award-winning author and activist Jacqueline Connolly
- ‘The Names’ is an acclaimed debut fiction novel by author Florence Knapp
- ‘Every Man’ by Dr Jackson Katz, a leading figure in the movement to engage men and boys in the prevention of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence
These books are part of a wider donation of 80 books on domestic, sexual, and gender-based abuse, donated by Haven Horizons to Libraries across Ireland.
This project is kindly sponsored by the Shared Island Civic Society Fund, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The ideas, opinions and comments in this project are entirely the responsibility of the presenters.
Agenda
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Registration / Tea & Coffee / Networking / Book Sales
🕑: 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Panel Discussion followed by Q&A
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Networking / Book Sales / Refreshments
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