‘The Rest of the Story’ Writing Project  with Michael Patrick McDonald

Féile na gCloigíní Gorma

Ceardlann Scríbhneoireachta leis an údar iomráiteach mór le rá Michael Patrick McDonald mar chuid d’Fhéile na gCloigíní Gorma 2023!

Glór Na Móna

Michael Patrick MacDonald is the author of the New York Times Bestselling memoir, All Souls: A Family Story From Southie and the acclaimed Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion. Both are frequent selections for Campus Reads and First-Year Experience programs at high schools and universities throughout the U.S. He has been a guest speaker at over 300 campuses. Macdonald has developed a community-based trauma-informed storytelling curriculum, The Rest of the Story: Transforming Trauma to Voice, Agency, and Leadership. The program was piloted in 2014 at Crittenton Women’s Union (now EMPath) with Boston women moving toward economic independence. Since 2015, it has been continually implemented with survivors of homicide victims at the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute; in Ireland with cross-border “men’s sheds” and at Loughan House Prison; with Participation and Practice of Rights in the North of Ireland where it is building a coalition of mental health advocates to confront a post-conflict suicide and painkilling epidemic; with Massachusetts parents forming a Family Advisory Committee to the Department of Youth Services; and, most recently, with youth-leaders of Dublin’s Northeast Inner City Coalition, a community dealing with high poverty, recent gang wars, and high substance use death rates. Join us on Monday 15th May at 12pm in Gael-Ionad Mhic Goill as part of Féile na gCloigíní Gorma 2023!

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