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Richard Kearney spoke at the keynote opening panel of the ‘Can Beauty Save the World?’ conference in honor of Charles Taylor (McGill Montreal, Oct 24-25, 2025). Also participating Sean Kelly, Elain Scarry and Charles Taylor.
Richard Kearney presents President Michael D Higgins of Ireland with the Guestbook Award for Narrative Hospitality, Sept 26 2025
Richard Kearney was recently awarded the Ireland Research Medal by Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin in Washington, D.C. on March 13, 2025.
A Guestbook Project Conversation, entitled “Narrative Hospitality,” at which Colum McCann (bottom left) discussed the theme with Richard Kearney and received the 2024 Guestbook Award for Narrative Hospitality. In addition, the event was the book launch for Hosting Earth: Facing the Climate Emergency, edited by Richard Kearney (top left), Peter Klapes (bottom right), and Urwa Hameed (top right). November 21, 2024.
Salvaging Celtic Spirituality at Halloween: Richard Kearney in Conversation with David Leonard (Boston Public Library, October 31st, 2023)
- Salvage Book Launch at Newtonville Books
Richard Kearney’s new novel, Salvage, will be launched at Newtonville Books on Thursday, May 18 at 7:00 PM. Although copies of the book will be sold during the book launch, Salvage will be available for ordering from May 1st on the Arrowsmith website.
Some recent reviews of Salvage:
- Press Reviews for Salvage
Richard Kearney’s new novel, Salvage, will be available for ordering from May 1st on the Arrowsmith website. This is the way Fanny Howe describes it:
Bursting with intimate contact with plants and sea creatures, who seem to grow from the writer’s pen as the origins of life might do, Salvage is a story about love, faith and the future. In this gem of a book, rooted in ideas Richard Kearney has been developing for decades, the writing is healing. It heralds the recovery of a rich Irish wisdom, something the world needs now more than ever.
Fanny HoweHere are different press reviews of Salvage.
Below, other praises for Richard Kearney’s work can be found:
- New book: Anacarnation
New book launched on Richard Kearney: “Anacarnation and Returning to the Lived Body with Richard Kearney” (Routledge, 2022). Edited by Brian Treanor and James L. Taylor, the book constitutes a collection of essays responding to Kearney’s work on touch, embodiment, incarnation and carnal hermeneutics. It can be acquired both in Kindle or paper format through Amazon.
- Hosting Earth—Guestbook Project (April 2022)
In April 2022, Guestbook Project held “Hosting the Earth,” an event engaging with the question of ecological hospitality by asking what it means to be guests of the earth as well as hosts. Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, participated in conversation with Richard Kearney.
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