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Dermot Bolger & Kevin Curran Andrea Carter Treacherous Strand Being Boycie John Challis Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated The Modern World With Anthony Toner With Gerard Brennan With Nuala McKeever With John O’Doherty Crescent Arts Centre Thursday 16 June – 6:30pm Tickets: £8/£6 Strand Arts Centre Thursday 16 June – 8pm Tickets: £6/£4 Crescent Arts Centre Thursday 16 June – 8.30pm Tickets: £12/10 Crescent Arts Centre Thursday 16 June – 8.30pm Tickets: £6/£4 Dublin 2011: Neil, twenty-six is unemployed, disillusioned and leaving for Canada. Before he can his grandmother asks him to read his great-grandfather’s recently discovered memoirs. Neil delays his departure again. With his girlfriend in Canada growing impatient, and his grandmother’s pleas for him to stay in Ireland, Neil faces a choice. A woman’s body washes up on a remote beach on the Inishowen peninsula. Partially-clothed, with a strange tattoo on her thigh, she is identified as Marguerite Etienne, a French woman who has been living in the area. Solicitor Benedicta ‘Ben’ O’Keeffe is consumed by guilt; Marguerite was her client, and for the second tim