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. 11 In partnership with the French Embassy in Ireland
Philippe Claudel interviewed by Dr Loïc Emilie Pine Guyon
Saturday 23rd February, Saturday 23rd February, 12pm 1:45pm The Hunt Museum The Hunt Museum €14 (€12 concession) €14 (€12 concession)
Emilie Pine is Associate Professor of Modern Philippe Claudel is a French writer and film Drama at the School of English, Drama and Film, director. He directed the 2008 film I’ve Loved You University College Dublin. Emilie has published So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t’aime) which won widely as an academic and critic, and is editor of the 2009 BAFTA for the best film not in English. the Irish University Review journal. His best-known work to date is the novel Les Âmes Her first collection of personal essays, Notes to grises (Grey Souls), which won the Prix Renaudot Self, was published in 2018 by Tramp Press. in France, was shortlisted for the American Gumshoe Award, and won Sweden’s Martin Beck Emilie will also partake in a panel discussion Award. He won the 2003 Prix Goncourt de la with playwright/performer Ann Blake, Niall Nouvelle for Les petites mécaniques, and the 2010 MacMonagle, Mary Coll and RTÉ producer Paula Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, for Brodeck’s Shields following The Morning After The Life Report, his hallucinatory story – almost a dark Before. See p.19 fairy-tale in which Kafka meets the Grimms – of an uneasy homecoming after wrenching tragedy. In addition to his writing and directing, Philippe is a Professor of Literature at the University of Nancy.
Philippe’s film Il y a longtemps que je t’aime will be shown with English subtitles on Friday 22nd February at the Hunt Museum at 12:30pm. He will 12 introduce it. This is a free event. 13 David Park Martin Dyar
Saturday 23rd February, Saturday 23rd February, 2:30pm 4pm The Hunt Museum The Hunt Museum €14 (€12 concession) The Blank Page Event. See p.18
David Park is the author of nine novels and Martin Dyar, poet, playwright, novelist, was born two collections of short stories. The Truth in Sligo. Grew up in Swinford, County Mayo, Commissioner (Bloomsbury 2008) was awarded studied at NUIG, Southen Illinois University and the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and adapted for Trinity College where he wrote a PhD thesis on film; The Light of Amsterdam (Bloomsbury 2012) the American poet Wallace Stevens. He was was shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize and The Poets’ awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award Wives (Bloomsbury 2014) was Belfast’s One City in 2009, the Strokestown International Poetry One Book. He has won the Authors’ Club First Award in 2001. His collection Maiden Names, Novel Award, received a Major Artist Award from published in 2013, contains his poem ‘Death and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the the host Office’ and it’s a prescribed poem on the American Ireland Award for Literature. 2019 Leaving Certificate. That same poem was described by Colm Toibin as ‘an instant classic’. David’s new novel Travelling in a Strange Land is Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin says that ‘Martin Dyar is published by Bloomsbury. a poet writing close to the bones and stones of a real Ireland. A landscape and its animals, David will also present Desert Island Books with people, ghosts, are pinned down, probed and Nadia Whiston Battersby on Sunday 24th. See p.24 revealed in sharp, often witty language’ and Bernard O’Donoghue has praised Dyar’s ‘narratives about the strangeness of the everyday’ for their ‘vividness and colour’.
14 15 Clodagh Beresford Dunne Niall MacMonagle
Saturday 23rd February, Saturday 23rd February, 4pm 4pm The Hunt Museum The Hunt Museum The Blank Page Event. See p.18 The Blank Page Event. See p.18
Clodagh Beresford Dunne was born in Dublin and Niall MacMonagle is a writer and critic and grew up in Dungarvan. She studied English and broadcasts frequently on RTE Radio 1. He writes Law and qualified as a solicitor. An international a weekly art column for the Sunday Independent debater and public speaker, she represented and has edited several anthologies including Ireland three times at the World University Real Cool, Outside In, Slow Time, Off the Wall, Championships, has been awarded several literary The Open Door Book of Poetry, the Lifelines bursaries and residencies. From a newspaper anthologies, the Leaving Certificate anthology background, Beresford published her first story Poetry Now, TEXT - A Transition Year English when she was eight and her poetry has been Reader and Windharp: Poems of Ireland since 1916 published and broadcast here and in the US. [Penguin 2015].
Her poem Seven Sugar Cubes was published in In 2017 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate by the Irish Times and was voted Listowel Writers’ UCD for services to literature. Week Irish Poem of the Year Award at the 2017 Irish Book Awards. Thomas McCarthy has said of Niall will also partake in a panel discussion with Beresford Dunne that she is a writer of immense playwright/performer Ann Blake, Emilie Pine, Mary seriousness and purpose. Her poems announce Coll and RTÉ producer Paula Shields following The a new vision to us, a new vortex of energy that Morning After The Life Before. See p.19 localises human experience and domesticated genius. He will also be in conversation with Richard Ford on Sunday 24th. See p.25
16 17 The National Library of Ireland Presents Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien and Dolans Presents
The Blank Page The Morning After The Life Before
‘If I knew where poems came from, I’d go there’. - A groggy Sunday morning, May 24th 2015 and Michael Longley 62% of Ireland is #hungoverforequality, Ann gets a text from her brother: “How’s the morning after This event explores the genesis, the making and the life before?” remaking of a poem of theirs with award-winning poets Clodagh Beresford Dunne (p.16) and Martin Gúna Nua presents the internationally acclaimed Dyar (p.15). Where do poems come from? How is and multi award winning, The Morning After a poem shaped and re-shaped? How does a poet The Life Before as part of The Limerick Literary choose a particular form, stanza structure, line Festival, Kate O’Brien Weekend. Running for one Saturday Saturday 23rd February, length? What happens between a blank page and 23rd February, night only on February 23rd in Dolans Warehouse, 4pm the finished work? 7:30pm the show is a personal, entertaining tale of The Hunt Museum Dolans weddings, ‘coming out’ and arguments over who €14 (€12 Such questions and others will be explored €15 takes out the bins. concession) with Clodagh and Martin with particular focus on particular poems. The conversation will be The show will Written by Ann Blake, directed by Paul Meade, moderated by Niall MacMonagle (p.17). be followed by a performed by Ann Blake and Lucia Smyth, The panel discussion Morning After The Life Before is a light-hearted, with playwright/ playful telling of a true story. Be prepared for performer Ann music, cake and equality. Blake, Emilie Pine,
Niall MacMonagle, “★★★★★...a perfectly rendered, heart-warming, Mary Coll and RTÉ necessary light in the darkest of moments” producer Paula Heather Bagnall, www.fringereview.co.uk Shields. “Blake and Smyth’s timing is incredible...uproariously
quick wit ★★★★★” 18 Melony Holt, Theatre in London 19 Mary Coll Paula Shields
Saturday 23rd February, Saturday 23rd February, 7:30pm 7:30pm Dolans Warehouse Dolans Warehouse The Morning After The Life Before Discussion. See p.19 The Morning After The Life Before Discussion. See p.19
In addition to having done her MA thesis on Kate An arts journalist since the 1990s, Paula Shields O’Brien at NUIG, Mary is a poet, playwright and has worked in print, TV and now radio – on Arena, broadcaster from Limerick. RTE’s flagship arts show. She has hosted many live public events - favourite interviewees include The first female editor of The Stony Thursday Book, Margaret Atwood and Donal Ryan. her publications include All Things Considered (Salmon 2002) and Silver ( Arlen House 2018). She is also Chair of the judging panel for the 2018 She has made numerous contributions to Arts Irish Times Theatre Awards. and Culture programmes on RTE Radio One, RTE Lyric FM, and RTE Televsion, and has worked as a critic for The Irish Independent and other national newspapers. Stage productions of Excess Baggage (2007) and Anything But Love (2010) were produced at The Belltable Arts Centre Limerick. Other work includes radio plays commissioned by RTE Drama On One, lyrics for the Choral Work ‘Spirestone’ and two award winning art song cycles in association with the Limerick composer Fiona Linnane, and a new play Diamond Rocks: Sunset, commissioned by The Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick.
20 21 Kate O’Brien Hour featuring Éilis Ní Liz Nugent in conversation with Dhuibhne Bill Whelan
Sunday 24th February, Sunday 24th February, 10am 11am The Lime Tree Theatre The Lime Tree Theatre €14 (€12 concession) €14 (€12 concession)
Éilis Ní Dhuibhne writes fiction, drama and non- Liz Nugent had several careers before turning fiction in Irish and English, and is also a literary her hand to writing. In early 2014 her first novel, critic. She has published over 25 books, including Unravelling Oliver, was published. It went straight six collections of short stories. Her latest book is to the top of the bestsellers list and also won the Selected Stories (Dalkey Archive, 2017). She has Crime Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. won many awards for her work, including Irish Pen Television rights for Unravelling Oliver have been Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Irish optioned by Appian Way, Leonardo Di Caprio’s Literature in 2015, and a Hennessy Hall of Fame production company in Los Angeles. Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2016. She is a member of Aosdana. Her second novel, Lying in Wait, was published in July 2016 and also went straight to number 1. Éilis will talk about Kate O’Brien and her work. It won the Ryan Tubridy Listener’s Choice prize at the Irish Book Awards and was shortlisted for Crime Novel of the Year.
In Oct 2017, Liz won the Irish Woman of the Year Award for Literature.
Liz’s books have been translated into 18 languages. Her third novel, Skin Deep, was published in Ireland in April 2018, hit the number 1 spot and spent five months in the top ten
22 bestsellers list. 23 Desert Island Books presented by David Richard Ford in conversation with Niall Park and Nadia Whiston Battersby MacMonagle
Sunday 24th February, Sunday 24th February, 12:30pm 2:00pm The Lime Tree Theatre The Lime Tree Theatre €14 (€12 concession) €15 (€13 concession)
Nadia was born in Dublin in 1994. There she Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize winning American lived with her mother, Eileen Battersby, until they novelist, story-writer and essayist. He’s published moved to Kildare when Nadia was five. Nadia twelve books, which have been translated into 35 finished her secondary education in Hertfordshire, languages. England and since graduating from the University of Manchester in 2017; Nadia has worked in He lives in Boothbay, Maine, in the United publishing and as a teacher in secondary schools States, was formerly professor in Trinity College, in South-East London. In September Nadia Dublin, and at present is Mellon Professor in the will commence her MA in English Literature, Humanities at Columbia University in the city of specialising in Romanticism at The University of New York. Glasgow.
David Park : See p.14
24 25 schedule
Friday 22nd February Saturday 23rd February Sunday 24th February
11:00am : Poetry 10:00am - 10:50am : 10:00am - 11:00am : Kate readings, with Jo Slade & Louise O’Neill @ The O’Brien Hour featuring Ciaran O’Driscoll @ City Hunt Museum Éilis Ní Dhuibhne @ The Library, The Granary Lime Tree Theatre 11:00am - 11:50am : 12:30pm : Screening of Lyndall Gordon @ The 11:00am - 12:00pm : Liz Il y a longtemps que je Hunt Museum Nugent in conversation t’aime / I’ve Loved You with Bill Whelan @ The So Long. Introduced by 12:00pm - 1:00pm : Lime Tree Theatre director Philippe Claudel Emilie Pine @ The Hunt @ The Hunt Museum Museum 12:30pm - 2:00pm : Desert Island Books 1:00pm : Adam Wyeth on 1:45pm - 2:30pm : presented by Nadia poet Desmond O’Grady Philippe Claudel Whiston Battersby & @ Culture House, Pery interviewed by Dr Loïc David Parks @ The Lime Square Guyon @ The Hunt Tree Theatre Museum 6:00pm : Official 2:00pm - 4:00pm : Opening by Lara 2:30pm - 3:30pm : Richard Ford in Marlowe @ The Hunt David Park @ The Hunt conversation with Niall Museum Museum MacMonagle @ The Lime Tree Theatre 7:00pm : RTE Radio 1 4:00pm - 5:00pm : Arena Live with Sean The National Library of 4:00pm : Presentation Rocks @ The Hunt Ireland presents The of the 2019 Kate O’Brien Museum Blank Page with Niall Award @ The Lime Tree MacMonagle, Clodagh Theatre 8:00pm : As Music and Beresford Dunne & Splendour in partnership Martin Dyar @ The Hunt with the Irish National Museum Opera @ The Hunt Museum 7:30pm : The Morning After The Life Before by 9:00pm : Festival Club Ann Blake, followed by @ The Hunt Museum a panel discussion with Playwright/ performer Ann Blake, Emilie Pine, Niall MacMonagle, Mary Coll and RTÉ producer Paula Shields @ Dolans 26 Warehouse weekend pass Kate O’Brien Hour featuring Éilis Ní Dhuibhne 10am, Sunday 24th February, The Lime Tree Theatre February 22nd - February 24th | €125/€100 Standard Ticket €14, Concession Ticket €12
The Festival Weekend Pass allows entry to all of the events during the Liz Nugent in conversation with Bill Whelan Limerick Literary Weekend. 11am, Sunday 24th February, The Lime Tree Theatre Standard Ticket €14, Concession Ticket €12 individual ticket prices Desert Island Books with David Park and Nadia Whiston Battersby 12:30pm, Sunday 24th February, The Lime Tree Theatre Official Opening by Lara Marlowe, ARENA Live with Sean Rocks, Standard Ticket €14, Concession Ticket €12 Musical Interlude featuring the Irish National Opera 6pm, Friday 22nd February, The Hunt Museum Kate O’Brien Lecture - Richard Ford in conversation with Niall Standard Ticket €15, Concession Ticket €13 MacMonagle Standard Ticket €15, Concession Ticket €13 Louise O’Neill, 10am | Lyndall Gordon, 11am | Emilie Pine, 12pm | Philippe Claudel, 1:45pm | David Park, 2:30pm Saturday 23th February, The Hunt Museum Tickets can be purchased at the Lime Tree Theatre. Box Office: 061 Standard Ticket €14 each, Concession Ticket €12 each 953400 or online at www.limetreetheatre.ie
The National Library of Ireland presents The Blank Page featuring Niall Tickets may be purchased at the door for individual sessions, while MacMonagle, Clodagh Beresford Dunne and Martin Dyar, tickets are still available. Concession tickets are available for student, 4pm, Saturday 23rd February, The Hunt Museum senior and un-waged purchases. Standard Ticket €14, Concession Ticket €12 Please note that ticket capacity is limited at all events, tickets will be The Morning After The Life Before by Ann Blake. Followed by a panel issued on a first come first served basis. Please allow time to purchase discussion with playwright/performer Ann Blake, Emilie Pine, Niall tickets on the door as no late comers will be permitted once an event MacMonagle, Mary Coll and RTÉ producer Paula Shield. commences. 7:30pm, Saturday 23rd February, Dolans Warehouse Standard Ticket €15 To book tickets for The Morning After The Life Before, please see www.dolans.ie 28 29 Thank you to all our funders, sponsors, supporters, participants, friends and visitors for their generosity and support of Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien. A special thank you to The Hunt Museum for their generosity in accommodating Friday and Saturday’s events. Also a special thank you to the Limerick Culture and Arts Office team for their invaluable support.
Funders : Arts Council, Limerick City and County Council UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK M.A. in CREATIVE WRITING Partners & Supporters : The Hunt Museum, French Embassy in Ireland, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK2019/2020 M.A. National Library, Opera Ireland, O’Mahony’s Booksellers, Culture and Arts in CREATIVE WRITING Office, Lime Tree Theatre, No.1 Pery Square Hotel and Spa, Dolans, Culture 2019/2020 WITH JOSEPH O’CONNOR, DONAL RYAN, House, Absolute Hotel Limerick, RTE Radio 1, Helen O’Donnell, Limerick City SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD, MARTIN DYAR, ROB DOYLE Library, Bella Italia, David Punch & Co Solicitors, Fines Jewellers Limerick, and other award-winning and internationally acclaimed authors Brian Geary Car Sales, Country Choice, Leahy & Partners Solicitors, Piccola Italia, Savins Music Centre, Lawless Flowers, Kleiser Pianos, Alex Findlater & This one-year programme enables students to develop their Creative Co, George Hotel Limerick, UL Creative Writing. Writing skills while working with a first-rate team. Our students enjoy visits and readings from outstanding contemporary authors. Visitors Organising Committee : Vivienne McKechnie, Marie Hackett, Eileen to UL Creative Writing have included Colum McCann, Anne Enright, O’Connor, Valerie Dolan, Anne Marie Gill, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Darren Louise O’Neill, John Boyne, Kit de Waal, Kevin Barry, Sara Baume, Liz O’Dea, Denise Whelan. Nugent, Marian Keyes and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford. Festival Administrator : Ella Daly Recent graduates have been published nationally and internationally and have won or been shortlisted for major literary prizes, including The Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien is proudly supported the Hennessy New Writer of the Year Award, the RTE Francis McManus by the Arts Council Festivals Investment Scheme and Limerick City and Award, the Listowel Writers’ Week Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award, County Council Festival and Events Grant Scheme. the Arts Council Next Generation Award and the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair Award. Mature students and international students are always a welcome part of our MA Creative Writing class.
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