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BORRIS HOUSE
FESTIVAL OF
WRITING & IDEAS
10 - 12 JUNE 2022
B O R R I S, CO. CAR LOW
FESTIVAL OF WRITING & IDEAS - BORRIS HOUSE - festival of writing & ideas
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.
FESTIVAL OF WRITING & IDEAS - BORRIS HOUSE - festival of writing & ideas
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.
FESTIVAL OF WRITING & IDEAS - BORRIS HOUSE - festival of writing & ideas
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:
FESTIVAL OF WRITING & IDEAS - BORRIS HOUSE - festival of writing & ideas
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
FESTIVAL OF WRITING & IDEAS - BORRIS HOUSE - festival of writing & ideas
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)
FESTIVAL OF WRITING & IDEAS - BORRIS HOUSE - festival of writing & ideas
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)
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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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