Date: Wednesday 17th September

Time: From 6.30pm

Location: United Arts Club, 3 Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2

The Book of the Festival for 2025 is 'A Life in Medicine From Asclepius to Beckett' By (Professor) Eoin O'Brien with Foreward by John Banville. Eoin O'Brien has lived and worked in Dublin and Internationally and is one of a generation who had direct experience of the times and the characters of Baggotonia . He has authored and edited numerous books of literary biography and criticism of the era, with a special interest in Samuel Beckett. He wrote The Beckett Country: Samuel Beckett’s Ireland as a tribute to his friend, Irish novelist, playwright and poet Samuel Beckett, on the occasion of Beckett's eightieth birthday. Beckett assisted O’Brien in the compilation of this literary and photographic work, and the two were close friends.

In 'A Life in Medicine From Asclepius to Beckett' Eoin recounts returning to Dublin and developing his love of literature and the arts which brought him into close personal contact with some remarkable writers and artists of Baggotonia, among them Samuel Beckett, Edith Fournier, Nevill Johnson, Con Leventhal, Brian O’Doherty and Niall Sheridan. His writing yields glimpses into the lives of these individuals, and his reminiscences of his friendship with Samuel Beckett movingly casts new light on the warmth and personality of the Nobel Prize-winner.

The Book of the Festival launch will take place on the evening of Wednesday 17^th September at the United Arts Club Dublin

For more about Eoin O'Brien and to purchase the Baggotonia 2025 Book of the Festival please visit https://www.lilliputpress.ie/collections/vendors?q=O%27Brien,%20Eoin&sort_by=title-ascending