{"id":900,"date":"2014-03-21T12:03:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T12:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2014-11-10T10:23:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T10:23:29","slug":"an-evening-with-damian-barr-077-apr-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/an-evening-with-damian-barr-077-apr-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"An evening with Damian Barr (077, Apr 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re as pleased as punch to welcome\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/damian_barr\">Damian Barr<\/a>\u00a0to Banter for a special evening about his book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/maggie-me-9781408838068\/\">Maggie &amp; Me<\/a>. Damian is the latest literary prize-winner to join Donal Ryan and Eimear McBride in the Banter Hall of Fame, as Maggie &amp; Me was voted political humour and satire book of the year at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalbookawards.com\/\">Political Book Awards<\/a>\u00a0in London earlier this week. The critical praise for Maggie &amp; Me has been loud and lavish too since its publication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thisisbanter.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/8dbff3b1c3912d2b083f63d1a867caf2_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-901\" alt=\"8dbff3b1c3912d2b083f63d1a867caf2_1\" src=\"https:\/\/thisisbanter.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/8dbff3b1c3912d2b083f63d1a867caf2_1.jpg\" width=\"760\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/8dbff3b1c3912d2b083f63d1a867caf2_1.jpg 760w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/8dbff3b1c3912d2b083f63d1a867caf2_1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/8dbff3b1c3912d2b083f63d1a867caf2_1-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/8dbff3b1c3912d2b083f63d1a867caf2_1-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maggie &amp; Me is the touching and darkly witty memoir about a yongster surviving Thatcher\u2019s Britain; a story of growing up gay in a straight world and coming out the other side in spite of, and maybe because of, the iron lady. It\u2019s a tale of a family divided by sectarian suspicion in a community held together by a sprawling steelworks. As Maggie snatches school milk, smashes the unions and makes greed good, our hero works hard, plans his escape and \u2013 in spite of violence, strikes, AIDS and Clause 28 \u2013 manages to fall in love dancing to Madonna in Glasgow\u2019s only gay club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/blogs\/ontherecord\/?attachment_id=19925\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19925\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/blogs\/ontherecord\/files\/0F739070-62CD-4241-8FBB-100058310320Img100.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aside from Maggie &amp; Me, Damian has been a journalist for over ten years writing mostly for The Times, but also the Independent, Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Evening Standard and Granta. He is the author of Get It Together: A Guide to Surviving Your Quarterlife Crisis and has co-written two plays for BBC Radio 4. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Faculty at the School of Life, host of the infamous Literary Salon at Shoreditch House and was named Writer of the Year at the 2013 Stonewall Awards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An evening with Damian Barr<\/strong>\u00a0takes place at the Twisted Pepper (Middle Abbey St.,) Dublin 1 on Wednesday April 2. Doors open at 6pm-ish and the conversation with Damian gets underway at 6.30pm. Admission is free and you can sign up to the limited invite list\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodytonicmusic.com\/events\/4494\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re as pleased as punch to welcome\u00a0Damian Barr\u00a0to Banter for a special evening about his book\u00a0Maggie &amp; Me. Damian is the latest literary prize-winner to join Donal Ryan and Eimear McBride in the Banter Hall of Fame, as Maggie &amp; Me was voted political humour and satire book of the year at the\u00a0Political Book Awards\u00a0in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/an-evening-with-damian-barr-077-apr-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An evening with Damian Barr (077, Apr 2014)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}