‘Northern Ireland author and Milwaukee favorite, Tony Macaulay, author of Paperboy and Breadboy, is returning for the American debut of his latest novel, Belfast Gate.’
Milwaukee Irish Fest
Hot on the heels of the hit musical adaption of his memoir ‘Breadboy’ in the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, this week, Belfast author Tony Macaulay returns to Milwaukee Irish Fest for the USA launch of his debut novel ‘Belfast Gate’.
Tony says:
“The original plan was to launch the book at Irish Fest in 2020, so I’m delighted to be back with friends in Milwaukee to share and sign copies of the new book as a guest author in Literary Corner in the wonderful Culture Village on the shores of Lake Michigan.’
Since the success of his first book ‘Paperboy’ Tony has been a regular speaker on Northern Ireland, peace building and creative writing at festivals, universities and colleges in the USA.
In 2012 the W.B. Yeats Society of New York invited Tony to present a reading of Paperboy in the National Arts Club as part of the 1st Irish Festival. In 2013 and 2014 he performed a series of readings from his books at the New York Irish Center as part of the 1st Irish Festival and returned to the National Arts Club in New York to preview ‘Little House on the Peace Line’ in 2016.
He has given talks at Lehigh University and DeSales University in Pennsylvania, the University of Denver, Colorado, the University of Notre Dame and Goshen College in Indiana and Pepperdine University, University of California, Irvine, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles and California State University, Dominguez Hills in California.
This will be his third appearance at Irish Fest in Milwaukee. He has also been a guest author at Celtic Class in Pennsylvania and the Irish Festivals in Maryland and Chicago.
He says:
‘I love the interest in my books in the USA. Irish Americans and Scots-Irish Americans are particularly interested in the social history of the Troubles and readers are keen to get beneath the surface of stereotypes and to hear the stories of ordinary people that are often hidden behind the headlines.’
Belfast is a satirical comedy, set in 2019, which tells the story of a group of Catholics and Protestant women who come together in a campaign to remove Belfast’s 50 year old ‘Peace Walls’, that still separate Catholic and Protestant neighbourhoods in Belfast.
Tony will be at Irish Fest, the biggest Irish Festival in the world, from 18th-21st August.
