Authors gather for Bowman’s inaugural Derry launch

Derry authors Felicity McCall, Ken Thatcher, Paul Gosling, Colum Arbuckle and Pat McArt were among the audience at Ráth Mór on Friday December 5 for the launch of Conor Bowman’s new fiction The Half-Life of Edith Hopkins.

In a very well-received speech, the Meath-based barrister explained his personal motivations for writing the work, which centres on the Tuam Mother & Baby Home. Bowman himself was born in Castle pollard home in the 1960s.