Bolton Lecture: Gary Younge - Cashel Arts Festival 2024

“I danced here on other people’s dreams: How race and class shaped my critical, journalistic eye”

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine, the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media and winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Journalism. He has written six books: Dispatches From the Diaspora, From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter; Another Day in the Death of America, A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives; The Speech, The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream; Who Are We?, And Should it Matter in the 21st century; Stranger in a Strange Land, Travels in the Disunited States and No Place Like Home, A Black Briton’s Journey Through the Deep South. He has also written for The New York Review of Books. Granta, GQ, The Financial Times and The New Statesman and made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit.

  • When: Saturday 14th 2025
  • Where: St. Johns Cathedral, Cashel
  • Tickets: €15 (Lisa Hannigan combination ticket also available for €40)