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We are delighted to welcome you to the 10th annual Ennis Book Club Festival. Over the past ten years, we have gathered guests from near and far to celebrate the NEVER wonderful tradition that is reading. The aim has always been to create a Festival that we ourselves would like to go to – a Festival that combines the warmth and informality of a book club gathering, whilst challenging us to explore new territories as readers.

The success of the Festival has been built up by the MISS commitment and dedication of so many different people. As far back as 2005, the wheels were set in motion to bring a new Festival to Ennis. Since that time, so many people have given freely of their time, energy and passion to ensure its success. That success has been underpinned by support from the wider community – youth groups, writers OUT and artists, the County Council through its arts and library departments, the wider business community and our small army of helpers.

Equally, the Festival’s success lies in the loyalty of our many contributors and audience members. Year after year, we have seen familiar faces return, committed to ensuring they enter with gusto into the spirit of the weekend. We know that you continue to spread the good word for the Festival!

As we gather to celebrate our ten years, we hope that you will relish your visit to the Festival, and indeed to Ennis, again this year. We look forward to meeting you over the course of the weekend.

The Arts Council’s new, upgraded CULTUREFOX Míle buíochas, events guide is now live. Free, faster, easy to use – and personalised for you. Never miss out again. Emer O’Connell, Chairperson Ennis Book Club Festival Committee 2016 1 Welcome Authors & Readers

2016 is a year for the curious, designed to give our audiences plenty of food for thought via a whole world of fiction and non- fiction. We take a slightly alternative look at the centenary year and ponder the myriad ways in which ‘revolution’ occurs in our lives.

As part of the Festival, we will hear from writers and poets in both Irish and English, and we introduce new writers in our Penguin Debuts’ session. Seans dúinn guth nua a chloisint nuair a léifidh Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh ón a cnuasaigh filíochta.

We are honoured to welcome Lemn Sissay, poet, playwright and Chancellor of the University of Manchester. His own story is fascinating and his writing evocative and compelling. We take a ‘Long Gaze Back’, and indeed forward, to celebrate the literary gem that is the short story.

We reflect on how both mothers and fathers are celebrated in writing. The role of revolutionary women, past and present, in shaping and continuing to shape our world is also considered. Kate Adie, author and BBC foreign correspondent, will talk about reporting from some of the most dangerous places on earth.

Our Sunday Symposium is a double offering in which we critically consider ‘commemoration’ and we ponder those who step out of the shadows and take a brave, and sometimes controversial, stand today. So lots of lively conversation, reading, and friendship are assured this year.

Thanks everyone – especially the committee, corporate sponsors, the Arts Council and Clare County Council – for making the Ennis Book Club Festival possible. A special note of gratitude to our beloved authors who, over the 10 years, have reached out to us from the pages of their books to share, talk and help us to better understand our world.

Gach rath oraibh,

Liz Kelly, Artistic Director Ennis Book Club Festival 2015 and 2016 4

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Rebel Sisters A Passion for Books Venue: Temple Gate Hotel Venue: Temple Gate Hotel Date: Friday, 04 March at 14.00 Date: Friday, 04 March at 15.30

Marita Conlon-McKenna opens Festival proceedings with a In this session, Dr Anne Byrne, NUIG, gives a fascinating reading and discussion of her new novel. Set in 1916, Rebel insight into the pen friendship between Nancy Nolan, Sisters, tells the story of the three Gifford sisters, Grace, housewife and fan of author Virginia Woolf, to Virginia’s Muriel and Nelly, each of whom found herself caught up in husband Leonard Woolf (1943-1944). The correspondence her country’s struggle for freedom. offers a keen insight into her own love of literature and to women’s lives in mid-20th-century Ireland. Marita Conlon-McKenna is one of Ireland’s best-loved authors. Her first book, Under the Hawthorn Tree, is now Dr Anne Byrne is Vice President of the Sociological part of the best-selling ‘The Children of the Famine’ series, Association of Ireland and Head of School, Political Science whilst another children’s book, The Blue Horse, won ‘The and Sociology, NUI Galway. Recent publications include ‘A Bisto Book of the Year Award’. Her work for adults includes Passion for Books: the early letters of Nancy Nolan and The Magdalen, The Stone House, Three Women and The Leonard Woolf 1943-1944’, in Virginia Woolf Miscellany, No Rose Garden. 86, and ‘Single Women in Story and Society’, published in Are the Irish Different? Clare Youth Theatre presents The Hours Venue: Temple Gate Hotel Date: Friday, 04 March at 15.00 10th Ennis Book Club Festival Official Opening Venue: glór Virginia Woolf’s The Hours connects three women over Date: Friday, 04 March at 18.00 three different time periods and explores the complex relationship between author and reader. Clare Youth Join us for the official Opening of the Festival and of HOPE Theatre, under the direction of Theatre Artist Eleanor at the glór gallery. HOPE is the result of an open call to Cork, Feely, conceived the piece in 2013. The theatre group is Limerick and Galway printmakers to respond to the theme an initiative of the Clare County Arts Office with over 200 of HOPE – selected by Michael Byrne. Music provided by teenagers as members since its establishment in 2006. The Music Generation Clare. Theatre has a unique artistic vision that is committed to the artistic, personal and social development of the young person. 6

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Penguin Debuts Marian Keyes in Conversation with Fiona Looney Venue: glór Venue: glór Date: Friday, 04 March at 19.00 Date: Friday, 04 March at 20.00

Meet two Penguin Debuts — Vanessa Ronan and Kit de We are delighted to welcome Marian Keyes in conversation Waal — to be published in summer 2016. Ronan’s Last Days with Fiona Looney. Marian needs no introduction as a of Summer has been recommended by Joseph O’Connor novelist, columnist and hugely entertaining panellist. She as “a seriously gripping debut from a major talent”. Kit de and Fiona discuss her insights on life, love and cake — just Waal’s My Name Is Leon, has been chosen by The Guardian in time for the publication of Marian’s new collection of as one to watch for 2016. Get your hands on a free copy of essays Making It Up As I Go Along. both novels on Festival opening night. Marian Keyes is one of Ireland’s most successful novelists. Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham to an Irish mother A prolific writer, she has published 13 novels, all of which and Kittian father. She has been the recipient of numerous have been bestsellers. Her work is published in thirty-three literary and reader awards, including the Bridport Flash languages. In 2012, she published Saved by Cake in which Fiction Prize 2014 and the Costa Short Story Award 2014. she attributes her good health to baking cakes.

Vanessa Ronan was born in Houston and has lived in Texas, Fiona Looney is a writer and broadcaster. Her plays Mexico, New York, Edinburgh and now Dublin. She has been Dandelions, October and Are you there Garth? It’s me, a dancer, a PA, a barmaid and now a writer. Home-schooled Margaret have been hugely successful. She is a columnist by her literature-teacher parents, Vanessa began writing as for various national titles and has a number of television soon as she learned the alphabet. credits to her name.

This session will be hosted by Liz Nolan, Lyric FM. This event is kindly supported by the Old Ground Hotel.

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Books & Buns – a literary quiz over a cuppa 10 Books You Should Read Venue: Rowan Tree Café Venue: glór Date: Saturday, 05 March at 09.00 Date: Saturday, 05 March at 11.30

We kick off our Saturday morning with a Festival firm Join us for one of the highlights of the weekend when favourite – Books & Buns. Enjoy a Saturday morning book Diarmaid Ferriter and Catríona Crowe share with us club gathering and test your knowledge of all things literary. insights into their favourite books. We’ve asked them not Refreshments are included to set you up for a busy day! to limit themselves, so expect some surprises from two voracious readers!

Writing from History Diarmaid Ferriter is one of Ireland’s leading historians and Venue: Old Ground Hotel Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD. He has written a Date: Saturday, 05 March at 10.00 number of books including: The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000; Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Evelyn Conlon and Henrietta McKervey read from and Ireland and A Nation and Not a Rabble: the Irish Revolution discuss their work. This session is a celebration of writers 1913 to 1923. whose work is inspired in different ways by history. Catríona Crowe is Head of Special Projects at the National Evelyn Conlon is an Irish novelist, short story writer and Archives of Ireland and Manager of the Irish Census Online member of Aosdána. Her most recent novel, Not the Same Project. She is also an editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Sky, tells the story of three young women who were among Policy and editor of Dublin 1911 (RIA). the 4,000 orphaned Irish girls shipped to Australia following the Great Famine of 1847. Earlier novels include Stars in the Daytime, A Glassful of Letters and Skin of Dreams. Walking Tour of Ennis with Seán Spellissy Venue: Meet @ glór Henrietta McKervey’s first novel, What Becomes of Us, Date: Saturday, 05 March at 11.30 was published to rave reviews. Set in 1966, it is the story of a young single mother and her life-changing encounter Sign up early for the walking tour of Ennis conducted with a woman who kept secret her involvement in the 1916 by Seán Spellissy, author and local historian. Seán is a Rising. Henrietta won the Hennessy First Fiction Award and well-respected local historian and is the author of many the inaugural UCD Maeve Binchy Travel Award. Her second books, including Clare County of Contrast; Limerick in Old book, The Heart of Everything, is scheduled for spring 2016. Photographs; A History of . 14

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Meet The Happy Pear From My Life, Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Venue: glór Leanne O’Sullivan with the Vanbrugh Quartet Date: Saturday, 05 March at 13.30 Venue: Temple Gate Hotel Date: Saturday, 05 March at 14.00 The Happy Pear twins, Stephen and David Flynn, take to the stage for food-recipe demos, stories and some tastings Acclaimed poets, Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Leanne of delicious Happy Pear food. They will prepare recipes from O’Sullivan, collaborate with Ireland’s finest classical their bestselling cook book, while sharing their journey to a ensemble the Vanbrugh Quartet in performing to Smetana’s happier, healthier lifestyle. From My Life.

The Happy Pear started out as a veg shop in Co Wicklow. Doireann Ní Ghríofa writes poetry in both Irish and English. Today, this family business includes a natural food-store, In 2012, her poem Fáinleoga won the Wigtown Award wholefood cafés and a super-food sprout farm. David and for Gaelic poetry in translation. Her poetry has been Stephen also own an own-label food company and are part shortlisted for many other prizes and she was selected for of Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube family. the prestigious Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award 2014- 2015.

Leanne O’Sullivan comes from the Beara Peninsula. Her first collection, Waiting for my Clothes, traces a deeply personal journey, from the traumas of an eating disorder to the saving powers of love. She has been the recipient of many awards including the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry (2011) and a UCC Alumni Award (2012).

Based in Cork, as Artists in Residence at UCC, theVanbrugh Quartet are founders of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival. The Quartet is establishing the National String Quartet Foundation at UCC to provide and enhance quartet music education and performance. The ensemble champions the work of Irish composers in concerts and 10th Birthday celebratory buns courtesy of Zest Ennis. broadcasts in Ireland and abroad.

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Marita Conlon-McKenna reads from her new novel Rebel Sisters 14.00 – 15.00 Temple Gate Hotel €10/€5*** Clare Youth Theatre presents excerpts from Virginia Woolf 15.00 Temple Gate Hotel Free A Passion for Books – letters of Nancy Nolan to Leonard Woolf with Dr Anne Byrne 15.30 – 16.30 Temple Gate Hotel Free th Festival 10th Birthday Launch and Opening of HOPE – a glór print exhibition 18.00 glór Free Penguin Debut Party - Kit de Waal My Name is Leon and

Friday 4 Friday 19.00 Vanessa Ronan The Last Days of Summer* glór €22* Marian Keyes reads and shares her insights on life, love and cake with Fiona Looney* 20.00 The Singing Café – cabaret recreating the ‘café chantant’ from Joyce’s Dubliners* 22.30 Old Ground Hotel **€5

Books & Buns – a literary quiz over a cuppa 09.00 – 10.30 Rowan Tree Café €10/€8 Writing from History– Evelyn Conlon and Henrietta McKerveyread from their work 10.00 – 11.00 Old Ground Hotel €10/€8 10 Books You Should Read – Diarmaid Ferriter and Catríona Crowe 11.30 – 13.00 glór €15/€12 Walking tour of Ennis with local historian Seán Spellissy 11.30 – 13.00 glór €8

th The Happy Pear – David and Stephen Flynn on food and health 13.30 – 15.00 glór €18 with some 10th birthday treats! Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Leanne O’Sullivan with 14.00 – 15.00 Temple Gate Hotel €15/€12 The Vanbrugh Quartet performing to Smetana’s From My Life Saturday 5 Saturday The Long Gaze Back – Sinéad Gleeson with Christine Dwyer Hickey, 15.15 – 16.30 glór €15/€12 Lisa McInerney and Siobhán Mannion on the literary gem that is the short story Kevin Maher, Cormac James and Cónal Creedon on fathers in their novels 16.30 – 17.30 glór - Theatre 2 €10/€8 Special Guests – An evening with Lemn Sissay and Kate Adie 20.00 – 22.00 glór €25 Festival Club with singer-songwriter Louise McMahon and friends 22.30 Rowan Tree Café Free

Sunday Symposium: A Nation and Not a Rabble – Professor Diarmaid Ferriter followed by 10.00 – 12.30 glór €15 Do It Like a Woman with Catríona Crowe, Caroline Criado-Perez, th Susan McKay and Micheline Sheehy Skeffington Walking tour of Ennis with Jane O Brien 12.30 – 13.30 glór €8

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The Long Gaze Back Oh Father Dear Venue: glór Venue: glór (Theatre 2) Date: Saturday, 05 March at 15.15 Date: Saturday, 05 March at 16.30

Join Sinéad Gleeson as she explores the literary gem that With Mother’s Day falling on Sunday 06 March, we thought is the short story with writers: Christine Dwyer Hickey, that it would be interesting to take a look at fathers in Siobhán Mannion and Lisa McInerney. literature. In this session, writers Cónal Creedon, Cormac James and Kevin Maher will explore the central role of Sinéad Gleeson is a broadcaster and editor. She currently father figures in their work. Expect some interesting insights presents The Book Show on RTÉ Radio One and is a reporter and lots of humour. on the RTÉ Television arts show, The Works. She is the editor of two short story anthologies including The Long Cónal Creedon is a short story writer, novelist, playwright Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, which and documentary maker. His stage plays include Glory Be won Best Irish-Published book at the 2015 Bord Gáis Irish To The Father and Second City Trilogy. Creedon’s published Book Awards. books include Pancho and Lefty Ride Out, Passion Play and The Mortal Deed Of Michael O’Leary. He has also directed a Christine Dwyer Hickey is a novelist, playwright and number of critically acclaimed documentaries. member of Aosdána. Her new novel, The Lives Of Women, was published in April 2015. She has been the recipient of Cormac James was born in Cork and is the author of two many national and international awards, including the Irish novels, Track And Field, and The Surfacing. The latter book Novel of the Year 2012 award for The Cold Eye of Heaven. has recently made it onto Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club recommendations. Siobhán Mannion was born in Ireland and grew up in England. She is a recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship Kevin Maher was born and brought up in Dublin, and and the Hennessy Award. She works as a radio producer in moved to London in 1994 to begin a career in journalism. RTÉ and is currently completing a first collection of stories. He has been a feature writer, critic and columnist with The Times for the past seven years. His first novel, The Fields, In 2006, Lisa McInerney started a blog about working-class was shortlisted for the 2014 Authors’ Club Best First Novel life in Galway, ‘Arse End of Ireland’. In the same year, The Award. Irish Times called her “the most talented writer at work today in Ireland”. Her debut novel, The Glorious Heresies, This session will be hosted by Sara Keating, cultural was nominated for a Bord Gáis Irish Book Award in 2015. journalist with The Irish Times. 26

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Special Guests Sunday Symposium Lemn Sissay & Kate Adie in Conversation Venue: glór Venue: glór Date: Sunday, 06 March at 10.00 Date: Saturday, 05 March at 20.00 Our Sunday Symposium includes two events planned to For our Saturday night mainstage event we welcome two inspire and provoke. Firstly, Diarmaid Ferriter will reflect on very different guests hosted by Susan McKay. the centenary year and offer some insights into A Nation and Not a Rabble. Lemn Sissay will perform and discuss his work as a poet, playwright and human rights’ activist. He was recently We follow with Do It Like A Woman in which our panel, named Chancellor at the University of Manchester, beating chaired by Catríona Crowe, reflect on the ways in which off stiff competition from Peter Mandelson. With roots in people are revolutionary today. Ethiopia, Lemn is Official Poet of the FA Cup Final and holds an MBE for services to literature. He was commissioned to Caroline Criado-Perez is a Brazilian-born British feminist write for the London Olympics and his installation poem and journalist. In 2013 her social media campaign led to the What If was exhibited at the Royal Academy. It came from Bank of England agreeing to put the image of Jane Austen his Disko Bay Expedition to the Arctic alongside Jarvis on the £10 note. Her book, Do It Like A Woman, relates the Cocker, Laurie Anderson, Leslie Feist and KT Tunstall. stories of women who are each changing the world.

We are also delighted to welcome Kate Adie, bestselling Susan McKay is a writer from Derry, now living in Dublin. author, broadcaster and BBC’s Chief News Correspondent. She has written two critically acclaimed bestsellers,Sophia’s Kate will discuss her life and work as one of the first British Story, a biography of child-abuse survivor Sophia McColgan, women to send dispatches from danger zones around the and Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People, a portrait world. She was named ‘Reporter of the Year’ twice by the of the community from which she comes. Royal Television Society and was awarded an OBE in 1993. Her first book, The Kindness of Strangers, remained on the Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington is a granddaughter of 1916 Sunday Times bestseller list for 37 weeks. activists Hanna and Francis Sheehy Skeffington. Micheline won a case in November 2014 against her employer, NUI This event is kindly supported by The Ennis Bookshop. Galway, for gender discrimination.

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Walking Tour of Ennis with Jane O’Brien Isn’t It Well For Ye? – The Irish Mammy Lunch Venue: Meet @ glór Venue: Old Ground Hotel Date: Sunday, 06 March at 12.30 Date: Sunday, 06 March at 13.30 (includes a buffet lunch).

Sunday represents another chance to engage with the To celebrate Mother’s Day and to bring the 10th Ennis Book historic and charming town centre of Ennis with Jane Club Festival to a fitting close, Colm O’Regan will entertain O’Brien. She has won a FBD Clare Business Excellence us and celebrate the Irish Mammy. A warm, intelligent Award for Best Tourism Initiative in Clare and her tour has comedy show giving a gentle but accurate poke in the ribs been praised by Lonely Planet as the best way to appreciate to the oddities and quirks of Irish life. the town. Colm O’Regan has written three bestselling funny books about Ireland as seen through the prism of the formidable Filleadh ar an gCathair figure of the Irish Mammy. They sprang from the equally Áit: Suas Caifé successful @irishmammies Twitter account. His comedy Dáta: Dé Domhnach, 06 Márta ag 12.45 festival appearances include the prestigious invite-only Montreal Just For Laughs, the Kilkenny Cat Laughs, Electric Beidh seans againn guth nua a chloisint anseo in Inis nuair Picnic and many more. Colm has a long and growing list of a léifidh Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh ón a cnuasach filíochta a TV and Radio writing and performing credits. chuireann saol na cathrach in iúl dúinn. More detailed programme listings for each event on: Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh is considered one of the most www.ennisbookclubfestival.com exciting voices in Irish language poetry today and was shortlisted in 2015 for RTÉ’s ‘A Poem for Ireland’. She will be joined at this event to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge by local musicians.

Rugadh agus tógadh Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh i dTrá Lí, Co. Chiarraí. Tá dánta léi in An Guth, Feasta, Crannóg agus Poetry Ireland Review agus scríobhann sí ailt ó am go chéile in ‘Beocheist’ san Irish Times. Foilsíodh a céad chnuasach filíochta i 2008 dár teideal Péacadh. Stockist of: Fly London Mam'Zelle EMU S.Oliver Heavenly Feet ile F Dubarry Cead M ailté Loakes from Skechers Gerry Weber An Binsin Luachra Romilka ”Crying is for plain women, Cats and many more! Pretty women go shopping” Oscar Wilde 065 682 1688 O’Connell Square Ennis, Co Clare

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Festival Committee Sponsors and Supporters Emer O’Connell Chairperson Significant thanks to our many Sponsors and Supporters in Michael Conneely Corporate Support Coordinator ensuring the delivery of the Festival. Full Sponsor details Mary Henchy Book Club Member throughout the programme. Particular thanks also to: Mary Kenneally Treasurer Cathy McDermott Volunteer Coordination Bank of Ireland Nollag MacNamara Venue and Hospitality Coordination Cartridge Blue Helen Walsh County Library Representative Clare Arts Office Clare County Library Clare Youth Theatre Conradh na Gaeilge Eamon Ward Photography Emily O’Dwyer Eason Ennis Fáilte Ireland Frameworks Media glór Gráinne Heneghan Home Gallery John Mullins D íl t is ch d ea Liane Bradley 'ár nOidhr Clare Comhairle Mary Kelly Newsagents County Council Contae an Chláir Molex Mulqueen’s Florists Old Ground Hotel Former Committee Members Perills Furniture Lifford The reputation of the Ennis Book Club Festival has been Purcell Audio built up over the past ten years by a range of different Repforce Publicity people who have given freely of their time and dedication Roche Ireland Ltd to ensure the success of the Festival. Former Organising Rowan Tree Café Committee members include: Sinéad Cahill Slattery & Company Accountants Suas Coffee House Patricia Callaly, Ciana Campbell, Mary Donnelly, Ann Temple Gate Hotel Knox, Ruth McDonnell, Frances O’Gorman, Catherine The Arts Council O’Hara, Paula Sheils. We would like to thank them for their The Ennis Bookshop continued support. Vaughan’s Garden Centre