Michael Harding

Michael Harding is a playwright and novelist. Many of his plays have been produced by the Abbey Theatre, and his novels include Priest, The Trouble With Sarah Gullion, and Bird in the Snow. In an innovative and creative column in the Irish Times he has been chronicling ordinary life in midland Ireland for over a decade, and the project has also evolved into four volumes of bestselling memoir: Staring at Lakes; Hanging with the Elephant; Talking to Strangers; and On Tuesdays I’m a Buddhist. He is currently working on volume five of that memoir. He is a member of Aosdana. Michael will offer Hinterland 2018 some wisdom and musings on ‘The Art of Memoir’, illustrated with readings from his own work.