YONKERS, NY — The American Irish Association of Westchester, in association with the Friends of the Yonkers Library, will sponsor a panel discussion and book signing with acclaimed Irish-American authors Malachy McCourt and C.S. Farrelly on Sunday, Feb. 18 at 2 p.m. at the Grinton I. Will branch, 1500 Central Park Ave.
The guest authors will participate in a question-and-answer session about the influence of American-Irish culture on their latest literary releases, “Death Need Not Be Fatal” (Hachette Book Group) and “The Shepherd’s Calculus” (Cavan Bridge Press). Bob Stauf, host of the Yonkers Emerald Focus television program and long-time leader in the AIA, will join Eric Schoen, leader of the Friends of the Yonkers Library, in moderating the program. Light refreshments will be served.
Born in New York and raised in Limerick, McCourt is the author of several books and the sibling of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt. The Washington Post calls his newest publication, “Death Need Not be Fatal,” “a wake in book form” and says it is “chock full of tales that are quite funny even when – maybe especially when – they deal with death.”
Farrelly’s debut novel, “The Shepherd’s Calculus,” is a fast-paced political thriller examining what happens when cornerstones of U.S. identity – religion and capitalism – clash with its principles of justice. Mystery Tribune calls it “compulsively readable fun” that “asks serious questions about the nature of power.”
A former resident of Yonkers and board member of New York’s annual first Irish Theater Festival, Farrelly now lives in Pennsylvania with her family. For further information on this event, contact Catherine Marshall at 914-969-7247.
