Kilkenny writer to launch book at sold out Arts Week event

Kilkenny’s Trisha Norton will launch her debut book, Fireflies, at a sold-out event at Butler Gallery on Thursday.

The book explores love, heartbreak and healing with honesty, offering comfort and words of reclamation for modern Irish women.

The collection is a narrative journey that follows the arc of decentralising romantic love as the only form of love, throughout which, it speaks to the emotional interior of the journey from girlhood to womanhood.

It captures the fragile beauty of love, heartbreak and healing, giving Irish women a place to be seen, heard and held.

Written across six chapters, with the first four detailing the rise, fall and loss of past partners. The fifth shines a light on the journey to open up inner love and the sixth highlights the wide sources of love that shine across her life.

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The book is available on Trisha’s website, www.trishanorton.ie, on Amazon and is on sale in bookstores.

Trisha is originally from Urlingford and is a writer of both prose and poetry. She holds an MPhil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin and studied Strategic Storytelling at Columbia University’s School of the Arts in New York.

Heavily involved in the Kilkenny Arts, she is a two-time recipient of the Kilkenny Arts Council’s Your Voice Matters award alongside her novel also being selected for the Irish Writers Centre’s National Mentoring Programme.

She has performed her words at both the West Cork Literary Festival and Kilkenny Arts Festival.

Her work reckons with the myths we are handed about romance, worthiness and womanhood, and is an active reclamation of voice, space and sovereignty.

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