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Book Launch They Killed The Icecream Man
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Book Launch They Killed The Icecream Man

Author George Larmour
With Malachi O ’ Doherty & Stephen Walker
Crescent Arts Centre Saturday 11 June – 7.15pm Tickets : Free
Colourpoint Books invite you to the launch of George Larmour ’ s , They Killed the Ice Cream Man .
“ My brother John Larmour was a police officer in the RUC . On 11 October 1988 he was off-duty and looking after my familyrun ice cream parlour , Barnam ’ s World of Ice Cream . I was on holiday in Spain with my wife and two young daughters at the time .
John was shot dead that night by the IRA . A teenage couple were also in the parlour and the gunmen callously opened fire 
 on them too . One of the guns they used had been taken from a murdered soldier . The other was a police-issue pistol that had been used in other killings .
My brother ’ s brutal murder has been gently immortalised in 
 a poem , The Ice-Cream
Man , by award winning poet , Michael Longley . His thoughtful words brought a degree of comfort to my Mum and Dad , who died of broken hearts .”

The Lifeboat

With Sarah Howe , Kayo Chingonyi & Cal Doyle
The Sunflower Bar Saturday 11 June – 7.30pm Tickets : Free
Sarah Howe is a British poet , academic and editor . Her first book , Loop of Jade ( Chatto & Windus , 2015 ), won the T . S . Eliot Prize and The Sunday Times / PFD Young Writer of the Year Award , and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection . Her pamphlet , A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia ( Tall-lighthouse , 2009 ), won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors .
Kayo Chingonyi holds a BA in English Literature from The University of Sheffield and an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway , University of London . His poems have been published in a range of magazines and anthologies including Poetry Review , Magma , Wasafiri , The Best British Poetry 2011 and 2013 Out Of Bounds ( Bloodaxe , 2012 ) and The World Record ( Bloodaxe , 2012 ).
Cal Doyle ’ s poetry has appeared in Gorse , The Stinging Fly , Poetry ( Chicago ), and elsewhere . He lives in Cork .
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