Dissecting Christine Falls

State Pathologist Dr. SallyAnne Collis will be in conversation with Garrett Fagan about the history of forensic science, the development of investigative techniques and their use in crime fiction from the historical to the contemporary. 

The discussion will consider what the fictional pathologist Quirke in John Banville’s Christine Falls gets right and wrong about the work of a forensic pathologist, and the differences between forensic pathology in the 1950s and today. The work of the State Pathologist will be explained and there will be an opportunity for questions.