Garrett Carr
@garrett_carr
The Boy From the Sea (a novel) is out now. The Rule of the Land was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Teaches in the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's, Belfast.
Thank you to all the newspapers, magazines, as well as bloggers and others who have reviewed The Boy from the Sea. The novel is out now in Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It will be released in Canada in April 2025 and the USA in May 2025.
This was a great chat and Louise, of course, got a full house. Thanks @EaragailArts for having us and @liznangel3 for the photograph.
The Boy from the Sea, or Il ragazzo venuto dal mare, is out in Italian today. There are print and audio versions. Grazie.
In Lille, France, they have an entire shop that only sells tins of sardines. It's not even that small of a shop.
😍 @garrett_carr's debut #TheBoyFromTheSea is one of @thetimes 80 books of the summer! thetimes.com/culture/books/… @picadorbooks
Great to have The Boy from the Sea included in the Washington Post's list of top reads for the summer.
'The Boy From The Sea' has been listed as one of 30 books to read this summer by the @washingtonpost, and the brilliant @garrett_carr will be joining us in July for The John Hewitt International Summer School! 😍🔥 johnhewittsociety.org washingtonpost.com/books/2025/05/…
I was lucky enough to attend a brilliant keynote from @cormacmoore recently in Toronto. His book Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission is essential to anyone interested in the story of how Ireland's border was supposed to be redrawn, and why it was not.
Great keynote last night in Toronto from Anna Teekell on the Magical Realist border, with writing by Jan Carson, Michael Hughes and Mary Burke.
Fascinating uses of visual material to get at history. Emily Mark-FitzGerald shows us some of the very first photos of Dublin and Jessica Poulin uses a painting to reveal the changing lives of Irish Canadians at the Canadian Association for Irish Studies Annual Meeting.
I'm heading to Toronto now for this conference. In separate events I'm going to be talking about The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border and my new novel The Boy from the Sea. It is co-hosted by York University and St Michael's College, University of Toronto.…
I'm heading over to this, in separate events I'm going to be talking about The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border and my new novel The Boy from the Sea.
Our annual conference meets @YorkUniversity and @uStMikes from June 11-13. Welcome to keynotes @garrett_carr, Anna Teekell, and @cormacmoore and thanks to IUOE Local 793 and @YorkULAPS for support. With almost forty speakers, we welcome academics, students, and the public alike!
Join us at #JHISS25 for "Dazzling Debuts" with first time novelists GARRETT CARR and ROISÍN O’DONNELL in conversation with Jan Carson! #literature #festival #armagh The Market Place Theatre, Fri 1 Aug, 2.45pm... visitarmagh.com/2025-08-01t144…
Book 53 in my list of publications by Seamus Heaney Centre students: BLINDSPOT by Hannah King, published recently by No Exit Press. "Beautifully written and heartbreaking, The Blindspot perfectly brings to life family complexities ... stays with you long after you’ve left the…
Great to see that The Boy from the Sea is IrishCentral's book club pick for June. I hope you all enjoy the Bonnars, the Lyons and the coast of Donegal. irishcentral.com/culture/the-bo…
I would've loved a chopper as a child so I'm liking this Radio Times illustration. It was used for a recent interview with me in the magazine. The Boy from the Sea is the Radio Times book club selection for this month. A couple of things are off: the shoes and socks worn by the…
It’s a gloriously sunny Wednesday at ILFD, with a brilliant line-up ahead: writing workshops, yoga sessions, a poetry slam, sean-nós singers, and thought-provoking talks on AI. Come and be part of it! ☀️📖
Fulfilling a dream I didn't know I had: I'm in People magazine.