Ennis Book Club Festival to take place in March 2023 with exciting line-up
Ennis Book Club Festival runs from March 3rd to 5th with a thrilling programme for all book lovers. Featuring crime fiction and memoir, poetry and new fiction, the environment and ecology; there will be performances, a book quiz and literary walks promising lively literary encounters all weekend.
On Friday March 3rd, A celebration of the life and legacy of one of Ireland’s most skillful and influential poets, Eavan Boland, will feature poets Nessa O’Mahony, John O’Donnell and Annemarie Ní Churreáin in conversation with journalist Olivia O’Leary taking place at The Temple Gate Hotel.
The evening events at glór will showcase the work of three Emerging writers - Aingeala Flannery, Megan Nolan and Luke Cassidy celebrating these new voices whose work is richly varied, circling around themes of identity, home and belonging.
Lucy Caldwell, Olivia Fitzsimons and Michelle Gallen, whose work displays an impressive, layered and sometimes devilishly funny rendering of life in Northern Ireland will feature on Saturday evening with Neil Hegarty.
Sunday offers a very exciting morning of events commencing at Sweet N Green Café with Ionbhá: The Empathy Book of Ireland. This will be followed at glór by Sunday Symposium featuring Eoghan Daltun, Dr. Olive Heffernan, Harrison Gardner and Éanna Ní Lamhna, with environment, ecology and climate change as the focus of their discussion as they explore together these concerns in an imaginative and creative way.
The Festival weekend comes to a close at the Old Ground Hotel with the return of the Literary Lunch and guest speaker, Donal Ryan, talking about his writing life and times.
Full details of all events and tickets can be found at www.ennisbookclubfestival.com
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