Eimear McBride To Read At UCC, March 20th

5 Mar 2025

We’re delighted to announce that, on March 20^th, acclaimed, award-winning author Eimear McBride will come to UCC, with a public event to mark the arrival of her new novel, The City Changes Its Face.

Eimear McBride is the author of four novels: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, The Lesser Bohemians, Strange Hotel and The City Changes Its Face. She has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Kerry Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She also held the inaugural Creative Fellowship at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading. Widely recognised as one of the most important writers working in English, she and her work have been described as follows:

‘A writer of remarkable power and originality’ Times Literary Supplement

‘A writer for whom language is an end not a means, a beginning not an end’ Jeanette Winterson

‘One of our major novelists’ The Guardian

‘Something of a genius’ Sebastian Barry

The City Changes Its Face is an intense story of passion, jealousy and family from a trail-blazing writer. A rainy Camden night, December 1996. Twenty-year-old Eily and forty-year-old Stephen retrace the course of their two-year love affair in search of what’s gone wrong. Is it Stephen’s reconnection with his long-lost teenaged daughter, Grace? Or that he’s a well-known actor while Eily’s still at drama school? Maybe the autobiographical film he’s just made has brought his old demons back to the surface? Or perhaps Eily’s youth has led her into a mistake she doesn’t know how to fix? Intimate, experiential and immersive, this is the story of what happens when it’s love beyond question, but trouble comes along anyway.

Please join us on March 20^th, 6.30pm at the Dora Allman Room, The Hub, UCC to witness Eimear perform from her new novel, with discussion afterwards. The event is free to attend, but ticketed. To make sure of a seat, please reigster via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/eimear-mcbride-the-city-changes-its-face-tickets-1266962893119?aff=oddtdtcreator.