Ordinary Saints: Author Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin and Prof. Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Please note that this event takes place in Dublin, Ireland. Event times are in GMT.
Professor Kathleen Sprows Cummings joins author Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin to discuss her debut novel Ordinary Saints, in a conversation about faith and family, identity and institution.
Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin is an Irish writer, living and working in Edinburgh. Her début novel, Ordinary Saints, was inspired by her own devout, Catholic upbringing. Ní Mhaoileoin is the winner of the inaugural PFD Queer Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize Discoveries Award.
About Ordinary Saints
Brought up in a devout household in Ireland, Jay is now living in London with her girlfriend, determined to live day to day and not think too much about either the future or the past. But when she learns that her beloved older brother, who died in a terrible accident, may be made into a Catholic saint, she realises she must at last confront her family, her childhood and herself. Ordinary Saints is a brilliant debut novel from a fresh, exciting new voice which asks – who gets to decide how we are remembered – and who we will become?
Kathleen Sprows Cummings is a professor of American Studies and History at the University of Notre Dame. Cummings’ most recent monograph, A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2019. She published her first book, New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era, with the University of North Carolina Press in 2009. She currently serves as the Director of the Provost Office’s Global Catholic Research Initiative.
This event is co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Global Catholic Research Initiative.
Originally published at dublin.nd.edu.