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LIMERICK LITERARY FESTIVAL in honour of Kate O’Brien 2019 contents Introduction 4 Poetry Readings with Jo Slade and Ciaran O’Driscoll 6 Adam Wyeth on Limerick poet Desmond O’Grady 7 Official Opening by Lara Marlowe 8 RTE Radio 1 Arena Live presented by Sean Rocks 9 Musical Interlude featuring Irish National Opera 9 Louise O’Neill 10 Lyndall Gordon 11 Emilie Pine 12 Philippe Claudel 13 David Park 14 Martin Dyar 15 Clodagh Beresford Dunne 16 Niall MacMonagle 17 The National Library of Ireland presents The Blank Page 18 The Morning After The Life Before by Ann Blake 19 Mary Coll 20 Paula Shields 21 Kate O’Brien Hour featuring Éilis Ní Dhuibhne 22 Liz Nugent in conversation with Bill Whelan 23 Desert Island Books with Nadia Whiston Battersby & David Park 24 Richard Ford in conversation with Niall MacMonagle 25 Festival Schedule at a Glance 26 Tickets 28 Acknowledgements 31 Map 34 he Festival, formerly known RTE Arena hosted by Sean Rocks. Festival, The National Library of to hear about the books that both as Kate O’Brien Weekend, is Irish National Opera, in a new and Ireland in partnership with Limerick inspire and console. T this year celebrating its 35th exciting partnership with Limerick Literary Festival will present The anniversary. The event continues Literary Festival, will co-present the Blank Page featuring Martin Dyar, The 4th annual Kate O’Brien award to honour the life and works of the opening night musical recital and Clodagh Beresford Dunne, and Niall for a debut novel from an Irish female Limerick author while attracting include works from Kate O’Brien’s MacMonagle who will explore the author will be announced on Sunday, prominent participants from all over novel As Music And Splendour. making of a poem. February 24th from the following the world. Building on this significant shortlist : history, the Limerick Literary Festival Also with us for the weekend are Dolans is where edgy entertainment seeks to promote Limerick nationally internationally renowned American meets irreverent comedy at 8pm on • Teethmarks on my Tongue by Eileen as a place of literary excellence and to writer Richard Ford whose novel Saturday, February 23rd in the shape Battersby provide a platform where readers can Wildlife was recently adapted for of International award-winning play • He is Mine and I Have No Other by meet their favourite authors and other the screen by Paul Dano, bestselling The Morning After the Life Before, Rebecca O’Connor readers. author Louise O’Neill, the celebrated fresh from runs in Montreal, London • Promising Young Women by essayist Emilie Pine, the renowned and New York. The show will be Caroline O’Donoghue The Festival is one of Ireland’s most biographer Lyndall Gordon, critically followed by a panel discussion with • The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan vibrant and successful festivals which acclaimed novelist David Park, the Playwright/ performer Ann Blake, • Follow Me To Ground by Sue has been running since 1984 and it award-winning author and No 1 Emilie Pine, Niall MacMonagle, Rainsford showcases in a diverse and eclectic bestseller Liz Nugent who will be Mary Coll and RTÉ producer Paula programme the best in Irish and in conversation with Riverdance Shields. The Limerick Literary Festival in international contemporary literature. composer Bill Whelan. honour of Kate O’ Brien is kindly Irish novelist and academic Éilis supported by the Arts Council A packed programme for 2019 In partnership with the French Ní Dhuibhne will talk about Kate Festivals Investment Scheme and includes talks, interviews, panel Embassy in Ireland, we have French O’Brien and her work. Limerick City and County Council discussions, poetry, an award-winning writer and film director Philippe Festival and Events Grant Scheme. play, a debut book award, and a music Claudel ( il y a longtemps que je Desert Island Books is a very popular recital. t’aime starring Kristin Scott Thomas). event on the programme and this We gratefully acknowledge our Limerick poets Jo Slade and Ciaran year it will be presented by David sponsors, supporters and friends. The Festival highlights include O’Driscoll will read in the Granary Park and Eileen Battersby’s daughter acclaimed journalist Lara Marlowe, Library on Friday morning. Adam Nadia. Nadia Whiston Battersby has Finally, we hope you will enjoy the who will open the Festival in the Hunt Wyeth will talk about the legacy of offered to step in as a tribute to her 2019 festival, which celebrates Museum on Friday, February 22nd, Limerick poet Desmond O’Grady. late mother who died just before writers, artists, books and readers. followed by an outside broadcast by A special highlight this year for the Christmas. It’s always wonderful 5 Poetry readings, with Jo Slade and Adam Wyeth on Limerick poet Desmond Ciaran O’Driscoll O’Grady Friday 22nd February, Friday 22nd February, 11am 1pm The Granary, Limerick City Library Culture House, Pery Square Free Event Free Event Ciaran O’Driscoll, born in Callan, Co. Kilkenny Adam Wyeth is a poet, playwright and essayist. in 1943 and living in Limerick, is a member of Adam’s debut collection Silent Music (Salmon Aosdána. He has published six collections of Poetry, 2011) was Highly Commended by the poetry, including Gog and Magog (Salmon, 1987), Forward Poetry Prize. In 2013 Salmon published Moving On, Still There (Dedalus, 2001), and Life his essays, The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Monitor (Three Spires Press, 2009). His most Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry. recent poetry publication is the chapbook, The His second collection The Art of Dying (2016) Speaking Trees (SurVision Books, 2018). He has was named as an Irish Times Book of the Year. won a number of awards for his work, including His plays have been produced in Ireland, Berlin the James Joyce Prize and the Patrick and and New York. He teaches Creative Writing at Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry. adamwyeth.com. Jo Slade is a poet and painter. She is the author of Adam’s 30 minute documentary on the renowned five collections of poetry and two chapbooks of Limerick poet will also be screened. poems, The Artist’s Room, (Pighog Press, Brighton, UK 2010) & The White Cottage (T-A-R Publications) Her most recent collection, The Painter’s House published by (Salmon Poetry in 2013) was joint winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Prize 2014. Her installation/exhibition, The White Cottage took place in The Sailor’s Home 2016. A forthcoming collection, Cycles and Lost Monkeys will be 6 published by Salmon Poetry, March 2019. 7 Official Festival Opening by RTE Radio 1 Arena Live, presented Lara Marlowe by Sean Rocks followed by Irish National Opera Friday 22nd February, Friday 22nd February, 6pm 7pm The Hunt Museum The Hunt Museum €15 (€13 concession) includes all evening events See p.8 As France correspondent for The Irish Times RTE Radio 1 Arts and Culture programme, Arena, newspaper, Lara Marlowe has observed French presented by Sean Rocks, will broadcast live from politics at close range for more than 20 years. the Limerick Literary Festival in the Hunt Museum. She spent four years in Washington DC covering Sean will chat with Richard Ford, Lyndall Gordon Barack Obama’s first presidential term, and has and other guests. worked extensively in the Middle East. Before joining the Irish Times in 1996, Marlowe was Beirut bureau chief for Time Magazine. She holds degrees from UCLA, the Sorbonne and Oxford, and has won three press awards. She is Irish National Opera, in partnership with the the author of The Things of Seen; Nine Lives of a Limerick Literary Festival, will co-present the Foreign Correspondent, and Painted With Words. opening night musical recital and include works The French government made her a Chevalier from Kate O’Brien’s novel As Music And Splendour. de la Légion d’honneur for her contribution to Franco-Irish relations. 8 9 Louise O’Neill Lyndall Gordon Saturday 23rd February, Saturday 23rd February, 10am 11am The Hunt Museum The Hunt Museum €14 (€12 concession) €14 (€12 concession) Louise O’Neill grew up in Clonakilty, Co Cork. Lyndall Gordon is the prize-winning author of six Her first novel, Only Ever Yours, was released in biographies,including Lives Like Loaded Guns : 2014. Only Ever Yours went on to win the Sunday Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds and The Independent Newcomer of the Year at the 2014 Imperfect Life of TS Eliot, and also Shared Lives, a Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards; the Children’s memoir of women’s friendship in her native South Books Ireland Eilis Dillon Award for a First Africa. Her latest, Outsiders, tells the stories of Children’s Book; and The Bookseller’s inaugural five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George YA Book Prize 2015. Louise’s second novel, Asking Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their For it, was published in September 2015 to famous novels. widespread critical acclaim. She went on to win the Specsaver’s Senior Children’s Book of the Year She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, at the 2015 Irish Book Awards, the Literature Prize and lives in Oxford where she is a fellow of St at Irish Tatler’s Women of the Year Awards, and the Hilda’s College. American Library Association’s Michael L. Printz award. Asking For It was voted Book of the Year at the Irish Books Awards 2015 and spent 52 weeks in the Irish top 10 bestseller list. O’ Neill’s first novel for adults, Almost Love, was published in March 2018. The Surface Breaks, her feminist re-imagining of The Little Mermaid, followed in May 2018 and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards and the National Book Awards 10 in the UK.