Reading by Irish novelist and playwright Niall Williams

Photo: John Kelly

A reading by Irish novelist and playwright Niall Williams, author of several novels, including This is Happiness, History of the Rain, and the recently published Time of the Child. Cosponsored by Princeton’s Humanities Council and Department of English.

The Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Jane Cox and Robert Spoo, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters.

Niall Williams was born in Dublin. He is the author of ten novels, including History of the Rain, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and Four Letters of Love, which will soon be a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Gabriel Byrne. His 2019 novel, This Is Happiness, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Book of the Year and longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize. His latest novel, Time of the Child, was published in the U.S. in November. He lives in Kiltumper in County Clare, Ireland.