The Fifth Court Podcast with Mark O'Connell, author of A Thread of Violence with Mark Tottenham and Peter Leonard
Sat, 17 May
|Kilkenny
In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate, found himself suddenly without money. The solution, he decided, was to rob a bank. To do this, he would need a gun and a car. In the process of procuring them, he killed two people, and roiled the State in controversy.
Time & Location
17 May 2025, 18:30 – 19:30
Kilkenny, 11 Patrick St, Gardens, Kilkenny, R95 VNP4, Ireland
About the event
Mark O’Connell is the author of A Thread of Violence, Notes from an Apocalypse, and To Be a Machine, which was awarded the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and The Guardian. He lives in Dublin with his family. He talks to Mark Tottenham and Peter Leonard of The Fifth Court podcast about the writing of the book and its themes.