Join us for the launch of
Valparaiso by Mary O' Malley
With music by Sean Tyrell
Thursday the 31st of May at 6.30pm
In 2007 Mary O’Malley made a voyage on the Irish marine research ship
the Celtic Explorer. It took her far out into the Atlantic, and it
returned her to a self and a country made strange. Valparaiso, a
collection begun at sea, is a book of searches and discoveries,
plumbing oceanic depths and returning to a shore that ‘marks the start
of possibility’. The surge and swell of the sea sounds in it, a place of
wonders where the imagination is freed. ‘What would sing in me is the
deep ocean.’
As the scientists chart a course dictated by the
demands of research, as Ireland is careering from boom to bust, Mary
O’Malley explores the science of going under and staying afloat. She
returns to an altered place, and is herself changed by an odyssey that
has taken her around the Atlantic and Europe, into her past and back to a
kind of homecoming.
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