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Crepe Wagon Sweet & Savoury Crêpes, all made from a beautiful French flour, with plenty of vegan options … our Homemade Chunky Apple Crumble & Cinnamon is a firm favourite. Dave’s BBQ Goldenhill Farm Ice Cream Fresh local free range beef Handmade on a family farm in burgers & steaks grilled over Irish Co. Wicklow, using finest quality oak & charcoal, with craft beer ingredients; also making delicious caramelised onions, rosemary fruit sorbets (which are dairy, egg fries, fresh brioche buns… and gluten free), and milkshakes and smoothies. Julia’s Gidi’s Great on the Grill Fusion of Yemenite and Moroccan flavours, traditional family recipes. Finest locally sourced fresh ingredients, simply delicious food, bursting with flavour, Julia’ s Lobster Truck served with a smile. Cooking simple fresh seafood from the West of Ireland; grilled lobster, steamed mussels, clams and oysters. Great fresh fish and chips fried in beef dripping. Korean Burritos Happy Valley Coffee Delicious Korean style Hot and iced single origin burritos - homemade coffees, loose leaf tea, hand kimchi and Asian slaw blended herbal teas, specialty with wonderful Irish hot chocolate and artisan cordial fizzy drinks as well as Home Fries meat and dairy. savoury snacks and sweet treats Pan fried baby potatoes from lovingly selected Irish (in a huge paella pan, until artisan producers. they become beautifully seasoned golden pieces of perfection) complimented with a great range of toppings and sauces, such Little Coffee Hut as homemade Patatas Serving a Costa Rican speciality Bravas and Garlic & Cheese coffee from silverskin coffee to Chorizo Stew and Slow roasters, with homemade baked Roast BBQ Pulled Pork. goodies and cupcakes.
SHOPPING FOR LOVELY THINGS New to Borris this year is a bazaar of tented shops, displaying the wares of a handful of makers both local and from across the country. Lizzie van Amerongen Painted Lamps and Lampshades Iseult Law Ikat Cushions and Beaded Belts Peig van Amerongen Kanthas from Rajasthan Harry Harris Cabinet Maker Heike Kahle Basket Maker Klaus Hartmann Potter FORM Design Group Do also visit the exhibition located in the Gate Lodge of Borris House, a showcase for works by local makers. FORM is a group of designer makers and craftspeople living and working in the Carlow region, and includes the work of Mary Bourke, Nicola Brown, Emma Jane Champley, Martin Lyttle, Martin Marley, Tomomi McElwee, Mary O’Neill, Darragh Sinnott, Leiko Uchiyama, Liga Valge.
WELCOME WHO DOES WHAT This is the eleventh year of the Borris Founding Directors: Vivienne Guinness & Hugo Jellett House Festival of Writing & Ideas. We are Creative and Executive Producer: Hugo Jellett a weekend for the culturally curious, in an Curator: Vivienne Guinness exceptionally beautiful and relatively unknown Production Manager: Annette O’Kelly part of Ireland. Artist Liaison: Mary Friel In this era of chaos and misinformation, our Camping Manager: Dominique Dorman speakers - celebrated historians, activists, Box Office Manager: Michelle Kelleher musicians, journalists, environmentalists and Technical Manager: Liam Mulvaney literary minds - will help us navigate these Festival Decor: Emperors Robes Festival Company uncertain times throughout the weekend. Curatorial Assistance: Lorenza Gay, Patsey Murphy We promise you a convivial atmosphere with good conversation and engaging company. PRINCIPLE SPONSORS TICKETS Please note: day or weekend tickets should be purchased in advance online: www.festivalofwritingandideas.com BOARD OF TRUSTEES ASSISTANCE Kathy Gilfillan Mareta Doyle Vivienne Guinness Hugo Jellett PATRONS John and Bernie Gallagher Kathy Gilfillan and Paul McGuinness Fuair an tionscnamh seo fóir-dheontas ó Coiste um This project received grant aid from Carlow Local Mareta and Conor Doyle Fhorbairt Pobail Aituil Cheatharlach, Clár Forbartha Community Development Committee under the Rural Tuaithe atá maoinithe ag Rialtas na hÉireann faoi Chlár Development Programme Ireland which is financed by the Ciara Hunt Francis and Richard Francis Forbartha Tuaithe Éireann agus ag Ciste Talamhaíochta Irish Government and by the European Agricultural Fund na hEorpa d’Fhorbairt Tuaithe: infheistiú na hEorpa i for Rural Development: Europe investing in Rural Areas. Joey Casey Limistéir Tuaithe. Stephen Evans Freke Funded by the Department of Rural Moya Coulson and Community Gianni and Michael Alen Buckley Development Catriona Wilson Marcelle Speller Bill and Denise Whelan PROGRAMMING FUNDERS Christopher and Bella Bielenberg Max McGuinness D R AW I N G Sir Steven Wilkinson M AT T E R S T RU S T Denis and Susie Tinsley Caroline Younger Brian Kingham IN-KIND ASSISTANCE Programme design:
SPEAKERS WELCOME WHO DOES WHAT This is the eleventh year of the Borris House Festival of Writing & Ideas. We are Founding Directors: Vivienne Guinness & Hugo Jellett Creative and Executive Producer: Hugo Jellett BORRIS HOUSE 2022 FESTIVAL OF a weekend for the culturally curious, in an Curator: Vivienne Guinness exceptionally beautiful and relatively unknown Production Manager: Annette O’Kelly part of Ireland. Artist Liaison: Mary Friel WRITING & IDEAS In this era of chaos and misinformation, our Camping Manager: Dominique Dorman speakers - celebrated historians, activists, Box Office Manager: Michelle Kelleher musicians, journalists, environmentalists and Technical Manager: Liam Mulvaney literary minds - will help us navigate these Festival Decor: Emperors Robes Festival Company uncertain times throughout the weekend. Curatorial Assistance: Lorenza Gay, Patsey Murphy FINN VAN DER LENNY TRAVIS DOLLY BEN ANDERSON LAURIE ANNE CATHERINE ELIZABETH We promise you a convivial atmosphere with AAR ABRAHAMSON ALABANZA ALDERTON ANDERSON APPLEBAUM BELTON BOYLE good conversation and engaging company. 10 - 12 JUNE 2022 PRINCIPLE SPONSORS B OR R IS, C O. C A R L OW TICKETS Please note: day or weekend tickets should be purchased in advance online: www.festivalofwritingandideas.com NICK OLIVER ALEX CLARK EDEL COFFEY STEVE COOGAN SINEAD CUSACK DONAL DINEEN KERRI NÍ MICHAEL KEEGAN BROOMFIELD BULLOUGH DOCHARTAIGH DOLAN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ASSISTANCE Kathy Gilfillan Mareta Doyle Vivienne Guinness Hugo Jellett BORRIS, CO. CAR LOW RODDY DOYLE GILES DULEY ANNE ENRIGHT SHON FAYE MARY RICHARD FORD ROY FOSTER STEPHEN FREARS PATRICK FREYNE FITZGERALD PATRONS John and Bernie Gallagher Kathy Gilfillan and Paul McGuinness Fuair an tionscnamh seo fóir-dheontas ó Coiste um This project received grant aid from Carlow Local Mareta and Conor Doyle Fhorbairt Pobail Aituil Cheatharlach, Clár Forbartha Community Development Committee under the Rural Tuaithe atá maoinithe ag Rialtas na hÉireann faoi Chlár Development Programme Ireland which is financed by the Ciara Hunt Francis and Richard Francis Forbartha Tuaithe Éireann agus ag Ciste Talamhaíochta Irish Government and by the European Agricultural Fund na hEorpa d’Fhorbairt Tuaithe: infheistiú na hEorpa i for Rural Development: Europe investing in Rural Areas. Joey Casey Limistéir Tuaithe. Stephen Evans Freke Funded by the Department of Rural Moya Coulson and Community MAUREEN CHARLIE SINÉAD GLEESON MISHA GLENNY MARTIN COLIN LUKE HARDING SALLY HAYDEN CATHERINE Gianni and Michael Alen Buckley Development GAFFNEY GILMOUR GOODMAN GREENWOOD HEANEY Catriona Wilson Marcelle Speller Bill and Denise Whelan PROGRAMMING FUNDERS Christopher and Bella Bielenberg Max McGuinness D R AW I N G Sir Steven Wilkinson M AT T E R S T RU S T Denis and Susie Tinsley Caroline Younger Brian Kingham IN-KIND ASSISTANCE LINDSEY HILSUM ISABEL HILTON SHARON GRAINNE JOHN ILLSLEY RÓISÍN INGLE JEREMY IRONS DYLAN JONES DANNY KELLY HORGAN HUMPHREYS Programme design: Martin Marley, Tomomi McElwee, Mary O’Neill, Darragh Sinnott, Leiko Uchiyama, Liga Valge. goodies and cupcakes. Roast BBQ Pulled Pork. region, and includes the work of Mary Bourke, Nicola Brown, Emma Jane Champley, Martin Lyttle, roasters, with homemade baked to Chorizo Stew and Slow PAT KINEVANE PHILIP KING JEAN HANFF KIRSTY LANG JAMES LEVER MARGARET COLM MEANEY BULELANI MFACO PAUL MULDOON makers. FORM is a group of designer makers and craftspeople living and working in the Carlow coffee from silverskin coffee Bravas and Garlic & Cheese KORELITZ MACMILLAN Do also visit the exhibition located in the Gate Lodge of Borris House, a showcase for works by local Serving a Costa Rican speciality as homemade Patatas toppings and sauces, such FORM Design Group Little Coffee Hut with a great range of perfection) complimented seasoned golden pieces of they become beautifully artisan producers. (in a huge paella pan, until from lovingly selected Irish Pan fried baby potatoes savoury snacks and sweet treats cordial fizzy drinks as well as meat and dairy. Home Fries hot chocolate and artisan with wonderful Irish FIACHNA Ó MARK OLIVIA O’LEARY JODY O’NEILL JOANNE FINTAN O’TOOLE PAT NEVIN DBC PIERRE RACHEL POIRIER blended herbal teas, specialty kimchi and Asian slaw BRAONÁIN O’CONNELL O’RIORDAN coffees, loose leaf tea, hand burritos - homemade Hot and iced single origin Delicious Korean style Happy Valley Coffee Burritos Korean chips fried in beef dripping. Potter and oysters. Great fresh fish and MAX PORTER DAVID PUTTNAM PATRICK RADDEN JAY RAYNOR MARY ROBINSON JON RONSON DAN SALADINO LEMN SISSAY JAMES Klaus Hartmann lobster, steamed mussels, clams KEEFE THORNTON Basket Maker from the West of Ireland; grilled Heike Kahle Cooking simple fresh seafood Cabinet Maker served with a smile. food, bursting with flavour, Julia’ s Lobster Truck Harry Harris ingredients, simply delicious Kanthas from Rajasthan Finest locally sourced fresh Peig van Amerongen traditional family recipes. Ikat Cushions and Beaded Belts and Moroccan flavours, Iseult Law Fusion of Yemenite HAN TIERNAN ED VULLIAMY GABRIELLE SARAH WATERS RUTH WILSON PADDY ALAN YENTOB PROFESSOR WALKER WOODWORTH SHIRLEY ZE YU Painted Lamps and Lampshades Gidi’s Great on the Grill Julia’s MUSIC Lizzie van Amerongen local and from across the country. wares of a handful of makers both and smoothies. and gluten free), and milkshakes fries, fresh brioche buns… caramelised onions, rosemary 2022 fruit sorbets (which are dairy, egg of tented shops, displaying the ingredients; also making delicious oak & charcoal, with craft beer New to Borris this year is a bazaar Co. Wicklow, using finest quality burgers & steaks grilled over Irish Handmade on a family farm in Fresh local free range beef LOVELY THINGS Goldenhill Farm Ice Cream Dave’s BBQ SHOPPING FOR Crumble & Cinnamon is a firm favourite. options … our Homemade Chunky Apple beautiful French flour, with plenty of vegan Sweet & Savoury Crêpes, all made from a Crepe Wagon CORMAC BEGLEY JR DUET LIAM O’CONNOR SCULLION SHY MASCOT MAJIA SOFIA THIS IS HOW WE FLY CHRISTINA TOBIN’S BAND
FRIDAY SCHEDULE BORRIS HOUSE 10TH JUNE FESTIVAL OF WRITING & IDEAS FRI ROUNDHOUSE GARDEN BALLROOM STEPHOUSE GRANARY CHAPEL FESTIVAL CLUB MARQUEE MARQUEE 3.20 - JUST BACK FROM 4.15pm UKRAINE: Luke Harding and Lindsey Hilsum’s first- hand accounts from the frontlines. 4.30 - DISRUPTED TAKE A WALK ON 5.25pm LIVES: Sally Hayden (My THE NORTHSIDE: Fourth Time, We Drowned) Roddy Doyle with director and Ben Anderson (No Stephen Frears and actor Worse Enemy) discuss the Colm Meaney on the global displacement crisis impact of the Barrytown and ask have responses Trilogy at a time of social toward refugees changed. change. With Grainne With the Founder of The Humphreys (Dublin Legacy of War Foundation, International Film Festival). Giles Duley. 5.55 - WHAT IS CHINA THE SACKLER SAGA: BEHIND THE SCENES: 6.50pm UP TO IN AFRICA?: Patrick Radden Keefe David Puttnam talks to Journalist Isabel Hilton (Empire of Pain) talks to Lenny Abrahamson about talks to Professor Shirley Oliver Bullough (Butler his life in film. Ze Yu about China’s ulterior to the World) about the motives behind its massive Sackler family’s pivotal role global investments. Is this in the opioid epidemic modern-day colonialism? and how they continue to With Fintan O’Toole. shield their wealth. 7.20 - AN ARGUMENT FOR AT WAR WITH 7.45pm: HOW TO BE A GOOD EAR: Richard 8.15pm JUSTICE: Shon Faye (The RUSSIA SINCE 2014?: A DANCER...IN 72000 Ford and Roddy Doyle Transgender Issue) and Luke Harding (Shadow EASY LESSONS: talk about where they come Travis Alabanza (Burgerz) State) and Catherine Written and performed by from, how this shaped their discuss trans literature and Belton (Putin’s People) choreographer Michael portrayal of Ireland, and art, the challenges faced by discuss Putin’s Great Keegan-Dolan, with what it means to be Irish the transgender community Information War and direction and support from today. With Edel Coffey. and trans safety. With artist how the West remained dancer Rachel Poirier. and activist Han Tiernan. bafflingly oblivious to it. An informal rendition of With Margaret MacMillan. this new dance-theatre production in development. 8.20 - MY LIFE IN DIRE FISHAMBLE: THE THE DEATH OF 9pm: ON THE DECKS: 9.20pm STRAITS: NEW PLAY COMPANY FRANCIS BACON: Donal Dineen selects the Bass player John Illsley presents BEFORE with Max Porter (Grief soundtrack. goes a long way back with Pat Kinevane. A father is the Thing with fellow musician Fiachna trying to choose a gift for Feathers, Lanny) Ó Braonáin (Hothouse his estranged daughter. This gives us an exclusive Flowers). With a song or one-man tour de force is dramatic reading of his two. ‘incomparable... Kinevane work ahead of its Gate displays a complete, perfect Theatre production. mastery of his actor’s instrument... Do not miss this show’ (LA Times)
SATURDAY SCHEDULE BORRIS HOUSE 11TH JUNE FESTIVAL OF WRITING & IDEAS SAT ROUNDHOUSE GARDEN BALLROOM STEPHOUSE GRANARY CHAPEL FESTIVAL CLUB MARQUEE MARQUEE 10.30 - GONZO!: Journalist and SAVE THE WHALE: 11.25am chronicler of happenings Marine scientist Finn THE ONE ARMED CHEF: on the fringes of the van der Aar and climate Photographer Giles Duley main story Jon Ronson change solutioneer and writer/film-maker Ben (So You’ve Been Publicly Gabrielle Walker on Anderson, known for their Shamed, The Butterfly how the oceans are work documenting war and Effect) talks to Patrick being affected by climate its aftermath, talk about their Freyne (Ok Lets Try Your change and how the friendship, shared love of food Stupid Idea) about writing maritime industry can and their television series, The yourself into your own decarbonise shipping, One Armed Chef. scoop. saving livelihoods and marine life. 11.40am THE FORM CHANGE EATING FOR THE FROM PENNILESS ALIVE, ENIGMATIC, NEUROTYPICAL? NOT THE PLOT - 12.35pm TOOK WHEN PLANET: SHOW-OFFS TO POP CURIOUS: American ME: THICKENS: IT ARRIVED IN Dan Saladino (Eating to ROYALTY: Dylan novelist Richard Ford Autistic writer and actor Jody Patrick Radden Keefe IRELAND: Fintan Extinction) talks to Isabel Jones (Sweet Dreams) talks to broadcaster O’Neill performs Yellow and asks Jean Hanff O’Toole talks to Hilton about the world’s talks to Sinéad Gleeson Philip King about the talks to performance poet Lemn Korelitz (The Undoing) historian Roy Foster most endangered foods (This Woman’s Work) short story and other Sissay about ‘celebrating not about plagarism and about witnessing the - from a red coloured rice about the 80s music losses... changing our autism’. appropriation - who extraordinary social, in China and a mucus- scene and The New exactly ‘owns’ a story - political and economic dripping maize plant in Romantics. the subject of her ‘ice change in Ireland since Mexico. Can food diversity cold satire of the book 1958, the subject of his help us save the planet? world’, The Plot. book We Don’t Know Ourselves. 1.20 - LOVE AND GHOSTS: MY GRANDMOTHER, THE CONTINUING WEIRDO: DIRECT PROVISION THE WHITE MOTH THE BELLOWS 2.15pm Dolly Alderton (Ghosts) MRS WILSON: Actress SEARCH FOR Unconventional Chelsea LIMBO: Asylum-seeker, activist OF MEMORY: Kerri OF THE BASS and Róisín Ingle in Ruth Wilson (The Little CLIMATE JUSTICE: and Everton star Pat and spokesperson for the ní Dochartaigh speaks CONCERTINA: Join conversation about Stranger) talks to film- Mary Robinson (Climate Nevin (Accidental Movement of Asylum Seekers to Sinéad Gleeson Donal Dineen and enduring female friendships maker Lenny Abrahamson Justice) and David Footballer) always in Ireland, Bulelani Mfaco, tells about Thin Places, her Cormac Begley on a and the difference between (Normal People, Room) Puttnam talk to James preferred Chekhov and Mary Fitzgerald about the memoir about politics, journey deep into a new writing fiction and a first about the extraordinary Thornton of ClientEarth Morrissey to football. deliberate marginalisation and nature, history and love frontier of sound, rooted person newspaper column. revelations uncovered after about the climate crisis He talks to broadcaster unequal treatment of refugees and her struggle to live in the heart of a tradition. her grandfather’s death. and the urgent need Danny Kelly about highlighted by the Ukrainian within and without the This is a live recoding for to protect the most being an outsider... and the Make Me an Island crisis. borders of Northern vulnerable. liking it. Ireland. podcast. 3.00 - SO MANY QUESTIONS: HEAVY METAL, SAVING THE OCEANS I MIGHT BE AN UNFLINCHING EYE: COULD THIS SHY MASCOT (LIVE): 3.55pm How culpable is the West MEDIEVAL HISTORY TO SAVE OUR LIVES: WRONG: BAFTA-winning director Nick HAPPEN TO YOU Soft-spoken hip-hop with in its response to Ukraine? AND LOSS: Elizabeth Environmental lawyer Radiohead’s bass player Broomfield (My Father and Me) OR ME?: Edel flavours of jazz and funk, Is it ignoring the Russia Boyle (Fierce Appetites) James Thornton and Colin Greenwood in tells broadcaster Kirsty Lang Coffey (Breaking Point) Shy Mascot is made up of China alliance and the tells Max Porter (The Finn van der Aar discuss conversation about more about turning the camera on and BBC broadcaster Fiadh Rua Gregg (voice), rise of an ‘Asian NATO’s’? Death of Francis Bacon, the escalating threats to or less anything with his complex relationship with Kirsty Lang discuss Jamel Franklin (voice), Anne Applebaum, Grief is the Thing with our oceans and the use author James Lever (Me his father, Maurice Broomfield, Edel’s psychological Aidan Gray (bass), Dan Margaret MacMillan and Feathers, Lanny) how her of legal challenges to Cheeta). celebrated humanist-pacifist thriller about being Kearns (drums) and Luke Shirley Ze Yu discuss the unconventional memoir help turn this deadly tide. photographer of Britain’s pushed to the limit O’Dwyer (keyboards). insights history offers us in intertwines her life story With environmentalist industrial decline. With clips. as a working mother understanding the current with scholarly medieval and author Paddy and living with the situation. With historian tracts. Woodworth. aftermath of a tragic Martin Goodman. mistake. 4.40 - THE FRAGILITY OF PUTIN’S GANGSTER UNUSUAL PEOPLE: WOMEN HAVING A REVOLUTION OF PERFECT PITCH: MAIJA SOFIA (LIVE): 5.35pm PEACE: Fintan O’Toole STATE: Catherine Belton Sharon Horgan FUN: THOUGHT AND ACTION: Author Sinéad Nominated for the RTE (Heroic Failure: Brexit and (Putin’s People), Oliver (Catastrophe) and Lenny Booker nominee Sarah Jody O’Neill performs from Gleeson talks to Choice Prize Irish Album the Politics of Pain) and Bullough (Butler to the Abrahamson (Normal Waters (Tipping the Ballybaile, her theatre piece broadcaster Donal of the year for her debut Patrick Radden Keefe World) and Misha Glenny People), filmmakers, talk Velvet, Fingersmith) tells about community, family Dineen about This album ‘Bath Time’, Maija (Say Nothing: A True Story (McMafia) discuss how, about the energy of the Alex Clark about her and identity. Roisin Ingle Woman’s Work: Sofia weaves styles of of Murder and Memory with the help of oligarchs, Irish in the television delight in researching asks her about the impact Essays on Music, an folk, post-punk and the in Northern Ireland) kleptocrats and gangsters, and film industry and historical novels and policy changes could have on anthology compiled more experimental across examine the Troubles, the Putin engineered his achieving global success. how desire, with all its individual lives in Ireland at the with Kim Gordon her fierce and fragile Peace Agreement and the takeover - enabled by the complications, informs present moment. (Sonic Youth), which songs. Sofia has graced consequences of Brexit. West. her work. challenges sexism and festival stages across With Mary Fitzgerald. male dominance in the country from Electric the canons of music, Picnic to Other Voices. literature and film. 6.20 - EUROPE ON THE O SUPERWOMAN: STRANGER THAN TWO FATHERS AND 7pm: MY LAST SUPPER: CORMAC BEGLEY 7.15pm BRINK OF WAR: Musician Fiachna Ó FICTION: Documentary A MAGPIE: Charlie For Jay Rayner, “last suppers SOLO (LIVE): Music, Historians Margaret Braonáin talks to the filmmaker Nick Gilmour (Featherhood) are a brilliant idea, but they stories, West Kerry... MacMillan and Roy pioneering singer- Broomfield tells Ben explores his fear of are wasted on the very people This is the concertina. Foster look at the war in songwriter Laurie Anderson about five repeating the sins who are eligible for them.” In Ukraine and ask, in light Anderson about her music decades capturing in of absentee father, this one-man show, he reclaims of the lessons learned or and innovative use of film some of the world’s Heathcote Williams, this fascination with last meals forgotten from the World technology. weirdest and most and the wish to build and tells the stories behind the Wars of the 20th Century, infamous characters with his own nest. With Kerri ingredients that would be on his how can this be happening his revolutionary style. ní Dochartaigh (Thin menu. (75 mins) again. Places). 8.00 - EVERYTHING YOU THE MANY LIVES OF 8 - 9pm: THIS 7.15pm: DOWN 9.00pm NEED TO KNOW DBC PIERRE: Booker IS HOW WE FLY A RABBIT HOLE: ABOUT SHARON winner DBC Pierre talks (LIVE): A sublime Irish Broadcaster Danny AND DOLLY: Comic to Alex Clark about his fiddler, a sophisticated Kelly relocated to Borris writers Sharon Horgan career, from Vernon God Appalachian hard shoe with what could well be and Dolly Alderton Little to his new book dancer, a Dublin jazzman, the largest private vinyl crack on about love, life, Big Snake Little Snake, a and a lyrical Swedish collection in Ireland. He work, relationships... and parrot-filled quest into the percussionist - Caoimhín will plunge into its nooks whatever you’re having meaning of risk. Ó Raghallaigh, and crannies, playing yourself. Seán Mac Erlaine, tunes, chatting with an Nic Gareiss, Petter encyclopaedic wit, and Berndalen.... Ancient meets avant garde. providing the soundtrack for sundown. 9.15 - 9.15 - 10.45pm: 9.45pm: SCULLION 11.00pm FISHAMBLE: THE (LIVE): The legendary NEW PLAY COMPANY trio of Sonny Condell, PRESENTS BEFORE with Philip King and Robbie Pat Kinevane. A father trying to Overson take to the choose a gift for his estranged stage, fusing folk, reggae, daughter. This one-man tour jazz, calypso, and blues de force is ‘incomparable... - and with a new album Kinevane displays a complete, thought to be their best perfect mastery of his actor’s work in their thirty year instrument... Do not miss this history. show’ (LA Times)
SUNDAY SCHEDULE BORRIS HOUSE 12TH JUNE FESTIVAL OF WRITING & IDEAS SUN ROUNDHOUSE GARDEN BALLROOM STEPHOUSE GRANARY CHAPEL FESTIVAL CLUB MARQUEE MARQUEE 10.30 - SUNDAY ASSEMBLY WHAT’S ON YOUR 11am: CHRISTINE 11.25am FOR UKRAINE: PLATE MATTERS: TOBIN’S ‘NO Music and words, with Dan Saladino (Eating STRANGERS HERE’ contributions from guests to Extinction) talks to (LIVE): Christine Tobin including Jeremy Irons, Paddy Woodworth about (vocals), Phil Robson Sinéad Cusack, Misha declining food diversity, (guitar), Dan Bodwell Glenny, Giles Duley, Ed the essential foods we (bass) and Cora Venus Vulliamy and a host of risk losing and how eating Lunny (violin/viola) take other surprises. them is, paradoxically, a on a jazz repertoire key weapon in the battle around the words of to restore healthy living. Leonard Cohen, WB Yeats and Paul Muldoon and others. 11.40am - APOCALYPSE PLUS PILLS, PILLS, PILLS: RAGE AND LONGING THE CLIMATE BEING YOUR BEST ON SEAMUS 12.35pm JOKES: Authors Max Ed Vulliamy (Amexica), IN THE BIG HOUSE: EMERGENCY: SELF: Psychologist, HEANEY: Porter and Mark O’Connell Patrick Radden Keefe Director Lenny HOW WOMEN broadcaster and writer Roy Foster discuss their different (Empire of Pain) and Misha Abrahamson talks about BEAR THE COST: Maureen Gaffney (Your and Catherine approaches to literature Glenny (McMafia) talk his collaboration with Mary Robinson One Wild and Precious Life) Heaney discuss in an age of competing about the widespread and novelist Sarah Waters and Isabel Hilton talks to Alex Clark about the interweaving of catastrophes. From the alarming consequences and actor Ruth Wilson in talk about the reclaiming control and Seamus Heaney’s life death of the novel to the of the opioid crisis the making of The Little effects the climate making the best of every and work. Readings by rebirth of earnestness, they and its relationship to Stranger. crisis is having on precious moment. Sinéad Cusack. promise, says Max, to romp international drug cartels. women. With Mary through the existential Fitzgerald. corridors of the end times. 1.20 - IN A LEAGUE OF TEAMING UP AGAIN: THE LURE OF MCCARTNEY THERE IS NO SUCH 2.15pm: JR QUARTET 2.15pm HER OWN: Joanne Steve Coogan and AUTHORITARIANISM: AND I: THING AS IT CAN’T BE - HALF OF THEM O’Riordan - journalist, Stephen Frears talk about Pulitzer prize-winning Paul Muldoon DONE: Climate advocates (LIVE): Restaurant critic sports commentator, their working relationship historian Anne Applebaum talks about The Gabrielle Walker and David and pig-lover Jay Rayner disability activist, subject (Philomena and The Lost (Twilight of Democracy) Lyrics: 1956 to the Puttnam talk about tackling (piano) and jazz-vocalist of No Limbs No Limits, King), and the power of discusses the rise of the far Present, his five-year climate change, carbon Pat Gordon Smith give us and recent graduate of storytelling with Alan right, nationalism and the collaboration with removals and the new a very special Sunday set. Criminology in UCC - talks Yentob (BBC broadcaster absence of rules or norms Paul McCartney surprising solutions to give to Olivia O’Leary about her and creator of the Imagine in autocracies. With Fintan to produce one us hope. latest bid for independence, series). O’Toole (We Don’t Know of the most all- learning to ride. Ourselves). encompassing rock memoirs for our time. With Dylan Jones. Assisted by the T.S. ELIOT POETRY FOUNDATION. 3.00 - A YOUNG LIFE IN THE ALLURE OF RISK: CHINA, THE GLOBAL CELEBRATING PUSHED OFF THE 4pm: PHIL ROBSON 3.55pm CARE: Performance DBC Pierre (Big Snake, ENVIRONMENTAL JOYCE: FRONT PAGE: AND DAN BODWELL poet Lemn Sissay reads Little Snake) and Ed LEADER?: Is it time for In the centenary year Correspondents Lindsey (LIVE): Two leading from My Name is Why, Vulliamy (Louder Than China to take the Paris of Ulysses, Anne Hilsum, Mary Fitzgerald Jazz men - Double Bass his memoir about identity, Bombs) in conversation Agreement into the heart Enright and Mark and Ben Anderson highlight and Electric Guitar - and race, neglect, family and about fortune, fate and the of its development and O’Connell bring their the continuing crises in Sunday afternoon. the importance of home. dangers and distractions of economic policies? James perspectives to the Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, The first live-reading of this Big Tech. Thornton (lawyer and CEO work, with selected Libya, Myanmar... to name a piece in Ireland. of ClientEarth) and Isabel readings by both. few. Too often ignored, not Hilton (founder of China Chaired by Olivia yet resolved. Dialogue) discuss this with O’Leary. Martin Goodman. 4.40 - NOTHING IS TROUBLE-MAKERS: THE WASTE LAND: 5.35pm IMPOSSIBLE: Laurie Podcaster and film-maker To mark the centenary of Anderson in conversation Jon Ronson (The Men T.S. Eliot’s landmark poem with Alan Yentob. Who Stare at Goats, Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Psychopath Test) talks to Cusack read. Introduced Nick Broomfield about by James Lever. Assisted their careers documenting by the T.S. ELIOT POETRY the foibles of others. FOUNDATION.
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