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This year’s annual memorial service for the author Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) will be held at 3.30pm on Sunday, 15 September in St Colman’s Church at Farahy (near Kildorrery).
The historic c18th church has strong associations with the Bowen family and stands in a tranquil pastoral setting with an atmospheric graveyard containing not only the final resting place of the author and her husband, but also a famine grave. It stands close to the former Bowenscourt estate where the ruins of the author’s ancestral home bear melancholy witness to past indifference towards some aspects of local heritage: an indifference thankfully no longer prevalent, as the attendance at the annual Trevor/Bowen Summer school as well as the regular congregations at the yearly memorial services demonstrate.
The address at this year’s service will be given by Rev Dr Robert Tobin from Oxford University who is a noted expert on Anglo-Irish literature. Many people who come to these services just enjoy a quiet and reflective hour in calm and attractive surroundings but they will have the pleasure of a stimulating discussion and outside view of one of our area’s most noted writers.
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