Novelist Tom Phelan To Speak

Tom Phelan at the Vicarstown canal bridge in Vicarstown, Co. Laois, Ireland (BernieKeatingPhotography.com) On Sunday, November 2, at 3 pm, Tom Phelan will be the featured guest at Author Afternoons at Molloy College, hosted by Molloy's writer-in-residence, Barbara Novack. The college is located at 1000 Hempstead Avenue, Rockville Centre.

Tom Phelan is the author of many novels, including The Canal Bridge, praised as "another First World War masterpiece...ambitious, accomplished, and deeply moving" (Irish Independent) and "a powerful and deeply affecting novel" (Books Ireland).

He has recently completed a new novel, Nailer, about a man set on revenge, set against the backdrop of Ireland's abusive industrial schools and the collusion between state and church that allowed the system to flourish.

Phelan, a retired employee of the Garden City Public Schools, was born and raised in County Laois, Ireland. A resident of Freeport, he recently returned from a six-week writer's residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan.

For additional information, go to www.tomphelan.net.