2024
‍Programme

One County One Book

Linda McEvoy: Reading and Q&A

Writing a Romance Your Readers will Fall in Love With

One County, One Book

Prison Workshop with Kevin Curran

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Adult Writers Workshop with Kevin Curran

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Meeting with Young Adult Book Club with Kevin Curran

Laois Writers Group Anthology Launch

Film Screening

Widow Clicquot

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Schools Workshop with Kevin Curran

Sinead O’Hart Author /Schools Workshop

Making Mythology Workshop

One County, One Book

Adult Writers Workshop with Kevin Curran

One County, One Book

Prison group workshop with Kevin Curran

Rick O’Shea in conversation with Caoilinn Hughes and Cathy Sweeney

Dagogo Hart and Guests

Masterclass

Mary O’Donnell

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Schools Workshop/Talk with Kevin Curran

Eleanor Mills and Barbara Scully in Conversation

Donal Ryan in conversation with Claire O’Brien

Eve McDonnell Author Workshop, Our Wishprint

A Film Directed by Alan Gilsenan

PAUL MULDOON: Laoithe is Liricí / A Life in Lyrics

Paul Muldoon, Caoimhín Ó’Raghallaigh and Brendan Begley

An Evening with Niall Williams and Mike Hanrahan

An evening of audio plays in the dark

Sightless Cinema Network presents Dog’s Life

Schools Event

Comic Making Workshop with Aoife Dooley

Reading & Writing Workshop with Dagogo Hart

Lantern Smoke:

Film Screening

In the Middle of the Fields

Film Screening

Four Letters of Love

Writing Workshop

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Roisín O’Donnell - Writing Workshop

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Emma Fogarty in conversation with Shauna Bowers

Laois Libraries Book Club Discussion

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Catherine Ryan Howard and Catherine Kirwan in conversation with Andrea Carter

Mike McCormack and Mary O’Donnell in conversation with Christine Dwyer Hickey

The Art of the Short Story

Generating Narrative for our Stories

Masterclass with Mike McCormack

Roisín O’Donnell - Schools Event

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with Grainne Hurley, Kathleen McMahon, Alice Ryan, Steve Wickham and Alex Clarke

Mary Lavin and the New Yorker

An evening with Keith Donald and Don Baker

Music and Mayhem:

Writing Saga Historical Romance with Seána Tinley and Val Troy

Weaving History and Heart

Sinead O’Hart Reading

Spotlight Sessions

Roisín O’Donnell and Lisa Harding in conversation with Miriam O’Callaghan

with Claire Byrne, Evelyn Cusack, Kíla 4, Clíodhna Ní Anluain, Roisin O’Donnell, Mary Costello and Colm Ó Snodaigh

Spoken Stories Event

Garrett Carr - Schools and Writers' Groups

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Book Clubs Meeting with Garrett Carr

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Authors of the Aisling series

Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen in conversation with Sinéad Cuddihy

A comedy drama by Elizabeth Moynihan

Happiness Then

Schools Workshop with Garrett Carr

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Val Troy, Faith Hogan and Ruth O'Leary

Women's Voices in Commercial Fiction

Writing Workshop with Garrett Carr

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Dónal Gallagher in conversation with Ann Marie Kelly, with music from Tiernan O'Dwyer and Michal Kulbaka

Edged in Blue

Garrett Carr and Neil Tully in conversation with Helena Mulkerns, with music from Méav

One County One Book: Challenges in an Emerging Ireland

Stories and crafts with Niamh Donnellan (ages 4-8)

Tales of Little Irish History Heroes

Louise Nealon in conversation with Helen Carroll

Writers' Workshop with Dermot Bolger

Stop Prevaricating and Finish Your Work of Fiction

Writing for a disconnected world with Lisa Fingleton and Edel Heeran

Connected, Contemporary, Crucial

Sinéad Mac Aodha, Director of Literature Ireland, in conversation with Helen Cullen

Translating Ireland

WeAreGriot presents a Laois poetry showcase with Dagogo Hart, FELISPEAKS, Snizhana Rauth, Jessica Witek, Tara Phelan and Catherine Graham

Turf Speak

Carlo Gébler in conversation with Dermot Bolger

No One Tells You: The Last Years of Edna O'Brien

Helen Cullen, Nina George and Hugo Hamilton, with music from Tríona Marshall

A Celebration of European Literature