Our 2024 Programme

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12 – 19 July 2024

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Letter Café

12 July 2024

Forest & Flock

Free. Open every day except Tuesday

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Dexter Lost His Boo-Woo! Shane Hegarty

12 July 20243:00 pm

St. Brendan’s Hall

Free but ticketed. Ages: 3-8

Our 2024 Programme

Letter Café

Dexter Lost His Boo-Woo! Shane Hegarty

Opening Reception of the 26th West Cork Literary Festival

Caleb Azumah Nelson & Rónán Hession

Nuala O’Connor: Seaborne

Ritual: Exhibition (All week: Sat to Fri)

Festival Swim

Molly Aitken: Bright, I Burn

Discover Irish Children’s Books: A Family Book Event

Eimear Ryan: The Grass Ceiling

Exploring Wild Wonders: Aga Grandowicz & E.R. Murray

Eoin Warner

Bantry Historical Walking Tour

Irish Children’s Authors and Creatives Guild: Meet up for Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Writers

Theo Dorgan: Once Was A Boy

Adania Shibli: Minor Detail

Anne Enright & David Nicholls

Yoga on the Lawn

Dani Robertson: All Through The Night

Fruitcake: Alice Barry

Inis Mara: Tristan Rosenstock & Mark Wickham

Shari Lapena & Andrea Mara

Victoria Kennefick & Paula Meehan

Writing for Children: Information for New and Emerging Children’s Writers with Sarah Webb

Maggie Armstrong & Mike McCormack

Emer Martin and Irvine Welsh

Dolly Alderton & Elizabeth Day

Workshop: Finding Writing Inspiration in the Everyday with Aoife Barry

Workshop: Nature & Place Writing with John Connell

Workshop: Novel Writing with Priscilla Morris

Workshop: Poetry with Mícheál McCann

Workshop: The Short Story Writer’s Starter Kit with Jan Carson

Kerri Andrews: Way Makers, An Anthology of Women’s Writing about Walking

Graham Allen: Without Covenant

Writer in Residence: Library Writing Groups

Danielle McLaughlin & Siobhán Rea

Nita Prose: The Mystery Guest

Burning Books: Michael Magee

Launch of the 2024 Fish Anthology

Miriam Margolyes: Oh Miriam!

Fleur Pierets: Julian

Michelle McDonagh: Somebody Knows

Movies Showing Nowhere: Yorick Goldewijck

Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem: Ironhead, or, Once A Young Lady

Tobi Lakmaker: The History of My Sexuality

Gustav Parker Hibbett & Mícheál McCann

Open Mic Matinee

Hedley Thomas: The Teacher’s Pet

Hisham Matar & Priscilla Morris

Tracey Williams: Adrift, Lego Lost At Sea

Leeanne O’Donnell: Sparks of Bright Matter

The Lonely Book: Meg Grehan

Jo Burns and Emily Cooper : The Conversation

Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin: Everything You Need To Know About Publishing

Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives, Dr Donal Ó Drisceoil

Irish Writers Centre Information Session

Rainbow Library Writers and Illustrators Youth Group showcase

Irish Writers Centre Climate Writing Sessions with Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Jan Carson & Thomas Morris

Paul Lynch: Prophet Song

Aoife Barry: Social Capital

Collaboration: Writing Poetry Together

John Connell: Twelve Sheep

The Slug and the Snail / An Drúchtín agus an Seilide: Oein DeBhairduin

Cork Stories: Jamie O’Connell & Eileen O’Donoghue

Colin Barrett & Kevin Barry

Sulaiman Addonia & Simone Atangana Bekono

Roxanne de Bastion: The Piano Player of Budapest, A True Story of Holocaust Survival, Music and Hope

Sinéad Gleeson & Cathy Sweeney

Mary Morrissy: Penelope Unbound

David Nash: No Man’s Land

Dinosaur Pie: Jen Wallace

From The Well Short Story Launch with Sasha de Buyl

Mark O’Connell: A Thread of Violence

Bantry Library: Bantry’s Brutalist Bibliotheque

Jason Allen-Paisant: Self-Portrait as Othello

Colm Tóibín: Long Island

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