Eighteen established writers, one from each city/region, were commissioned to write a chapter in a response to their Arts & Society theme within the context of their city.
Just as Ulysses is innovative in its form and language, so the writers were chosen with a view to reflecting a breadth of genres, styles and innovations. All the (new) chapters from the 18 cities/regions will be brought together in a book to be published in the Autumn 2024: ULYSSES European Odyssey.
Kerri ní Dochartaigh wrote the Derry ~ Donegal chapter
Writer’s Statement
My work currently explores ideas of emergency, interconnectedness, one-another-ness, and ecologies of care, so it is with great excitement that I embarked on this journey with one of the books that most intensely and affectingly speaks to the experience of being alive in this beautiful, aching, brutal, magical world. I was over the moon to be navigating Joyce’s ethereal, other-worldly creation alongside so many other incredible artists.
Writer’s Biography
Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry-Londonderry in 1983. She is a mother, writer and grower.
She has written for The Guardian, BBC, RTE, The Irish Times and others. Her work currently explores ideas of emergency, interconnectedness and ecologies of care. Her first book, Thin Places, was published by Canongate in Spring 2021, for which she was awarded the Butler Literary Award 2022, and highly commended for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021. Cacophony of Bone was published by Canongate in May 2023 and was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2023. She lives in the west of Ireland.