# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Maine Irish Reads ‘Our London Lives’ by Christine Dwyer Hickey
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 11 Jun, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Maine Irish Reads, our monthly book club, meets every second Thursday here at the Center!
From 7:30 – 9 PM in the MIHC Library. Bring a friend. The more, the merrier.

About this month’s book:
‘Huge of heart and soaring of soul’ CLAIRE KILROY
‘A profound love story…Like Barbara Kingsolver, Hickey captures the pulse of the living moment’ COLUM McCANN

1979. In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all away.

Over the decades their lives follow different paths, interweaving from time to time, often in one another’s sight, always on one another’s mind, yet rarely together.

Forty years on, Milly is clinging onto the only home she’s ever really known while Pip, haunted by T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, traipses the streets of London and wrestles with the life of the recovering alcoholic. And between them, perhaps uncrossable, lies the unspoken span of their lives.

Dark and brave, this epic novel offers a rich and moving portrait of an ever-changing city, and a profound inquiry into character, loneliness and the nature of love.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/portland/maine-irish-reads-‘our-london-lives’-by-christine-dwyer-hickey/200028539338513
- **Event Categories**: 
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 7

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Portland
- **state**: ME
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States, Maine 04102
- **lat**: 43.6504
- **long**: -70.26249
- **full address**: 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States, Maine 04102

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Maine Irish Reads ‘Our London Lives’ by Christine Dwyer Hickey being held?
  - **A:** Maine Irish Reads ‘Our London Lives’ by Christine Dwyer Hickey takes place on Thu, 11 Jun, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Thu, 11 Jun, 2026 at 07:30 pm at 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States, Maine 04102.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Maine Irish Reads ‘Our London Lives’ by Christine Dwyer Hickey?
  - **A:** Maine Irish Reads ‘Our London Lives’ by Christine Dwyer Hickey is organized by Maine Irish Heritage Center.

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