Richard E. Grant: A Pocketful of Happiness
- €35
- The Maritime Hotel
- 12/07/2025 - 8:30 pm
Note: This event is now sold out and we are no longer adding names to the waiting list. If you are already on the waiting list we will contact you nearer the time if a ticket(s) becomes available for you
Join us for a very special Saturday night with actor and author Richard E. Grant. Richard will be in conversation with Rory O’Connell from Ballymaloe Cookery School.
Funny, tender and perceptive, A Pocketful of Happiness is an insight into the life – and the long and happy marriage – of a much-loved actor. It is a beautiful, sometimes heart-breaking and always life-affirming book.
Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard moved to the UK to pursue his acting career and has been a fixture on our screens since his breakout role in Withnail and I in 1987. When his beloved wife Joan died in 2021 after almost forty years together, she set him a challenge: to find a pocketful of happiness in every day.
Set between the present day and flashbacks to delightfully funny and candid diary entries which recall landmarks from his remarkable life and glittering career, this is an immensely personal and profound memoir that cherishes life’s unexpected joys.
‘Fascinating, funny and heart wrenching. Ultimately uplifting because it’s a beautiful and honest celebration of a deep, deep love.’ Julie Walters
‘A gorgeously candid account of acting and showbusiness. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a life spent together. I cannot remember being so moved by a book.’ Dolly Alderton
‘An emotional rollercoaster – profoundly moving and wonderfully entertaining. A brilliant memoir about living, loving and losing.’ Bernardine Evaristo
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