Enda Walsh in conversation with Denis Flannery

The School of English presents a special event involving the playwright, screenwriter and librettist Enda Walsh in conversation with Dr Denis Flannery

Born in Dublin in 1967 and now living in London, Enda Walsh is an internationally renowned playwright, screenwriter and librettist. His plays include Disco Pigs (1996, adapted for the cinema in 2001), The Walworth Farce (2006),  and Lazarus, written in collaboration with David Bowie (2015).  His work for the cinema includes Hunger (2008), a biopic that told the story of the final days of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands and, most recently, Die, My Love (2025).  Walsh wrote the book of the musical Sing Street  (2022) adapted from the film of the same name written by John Carney.  His other work has comprised writing the libretto for the 2017 opera The Second Violinist (music by Donnacha Dennehy) and adapting Max Porter's novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers for the stage in 2018. 

This (fairly informal) event, hosted by Dr Denis Flannery of the School of English, will explore Walsh's relationship to topics such as Ireland, migration, the processes of writing for stage, screen, and radio as well as questions around longing, lost loves, and expressionist worlds. The conversation will also touch on some of Walsh's collaborative relationships with figures such as Steve McQueen, Michael Fassbinder, Ivo van Hove, and David Bowie.

This event takes place in the Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre in the Michael Sadler Building on the University of Leeds campus.

Admission to this event is free but please reserve your seat by following this link.

photo credit: Elena Ternovaja - CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=165563362