Saturday 18th
€10/€8 per workshop / performance
Rathmullan, Rathmullan House Hotel
11.30am: Writer’s in Conversation - Hosted by Dermot Bolger
1.30pm: Writer’s Workshop with Brian Keenan
3.30pm: Poetry Workshop with Cathal Mc Cabe
8.00pm: Poetry Performance with Jennifer Johnston / Dermot Bolger / Cathal Mc Cabe
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A day of readings, workshops and conversation about the business of writing, curated and introduced by Dermot Bolger with Brian Keenan, Jennifer Johnston and Cathal McCabe. Hosted in the stately surroundings of Rathmullan House, the day-long series of events will be presented across 4 individual sessions designed for aspiring writers, fans and those just passionate about literature.
Born in Dublin in 1959, Dermot Bolger’s nine novels include The Woman’s Daughter, The Journey Home, Temptation, Father’s Music, The Valparaiso Voyage and most recently The Family on Paradise Pier, partly set in Donegal. The first part of his Ballymun Trilogy, From These Green Heights, received the Irish Times/ESB Prize for Best New Irish Play of 2004.
Brian Keenan was born in Belfast in 1950. His books include An Evil Cradling, (Hutchinson, 1992), the superbly written account of his experiences of being held hostage for four and a half years in the Lebanon.
Born in Dublin in 1930, Jennifer Johnston is one of Ireland’s finest living writers whose many novels spanning over 3 decades include The Captains and the Kings (1972) and Foolish Mortals (2007). She has received many awards, including the Robert Pitman Award; the Yorkshire Post Award, the 1979 Whitbread Award and Shadows on our Skin was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
The poet Cathal McCabe is a graduate of the Universities of York and Oxford. He has worked as a lecturer at the University of Lodz, as Literature Consultant with the British Council in Warsaw and as Director of the Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin. His poems have been widely published in Ireland and abroad.
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