Name: 26th January 2027 ‘People Like Us’, my Protestant family. An exploration of identity and belonging.
Start: 2027-01-26 10:30:00
End: 2027-01-26 12:30:00

‘People Like Us’, my Protestant family. An exploration of identity and belonging..

Julie Parsons

Tuesday January 26, 2027
10:30 – 12:30
Newtownpark Pastoral Centre (map)

Julie Parsons was for many years a radio and TV producer with RTE. Her first novel, ‘Mary, Mary, published in 1998 was a commercial and critical success. She has written 7 more novels, the most recent, ‘The Therapy House’ won the Crime Fiction Book of the Year Award 2017. ‘People Like Us’ is her first nonfiction book.

Her book ‘People Like Us’ is the story of her extended Protestant family, the Purefoys, Chamberlains, Parsons and McClenaghan. Using diaries, letters, accounts of the family written in the 19th century and recorded memories, she discover clergy, doctors, shop keepers, musicians, soldiers, farmers and even a poet, from whom she is descended. The tragedy of her father’s disappearance in the South Pacific in 1955 when she was four, provides the impetus to discover who she is and where she belongs.