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LIMERICK
LITERARY
FESTIVAL
in honour of Kate O’Brien

      2019
LIMERICK LITERARY FESTIVAL - in honour of Kate O'Brien
contents

Introduction                                                    4
Poetry Readings with Jo Slade and Ciaran O’Driscoll             6
Adam Wyeth on Limerick poet Desmond O’Grady                     7
Official Opening by Lara Marlowe                                8
RTE Radio 1 Arena Live presented by Sean Rocks                  9
Musical Interlude featuring Irish National Opera                9
Louise O’Neill                                                  10
Lyndall Gordon                                                  11
Emilie Pine                                                     12
Philippe Claudel                                                13
David Park                                                      14
Martin Dyar                                                     15
Clodagh Beresford Dunne                                         16
Niall MacMonagle                                                17
The National Library of Ireland presents The Blank Page         18
The Morning After The Life Before by Ann Blake                  19
Mary Coll                                                       20
Paula Shields                                                   21
Kate O’Brien Hour featuring Éilis Ní Dhuibhne                   22
Liz Nugent in conversation with Bill Whelan                     23
Desert Island Books with Nadia Whiston Battersby & David Park   24
Richard Ford in conversation with Niall MacMonagle              25
Festival Schedule at a Glance                                   26
Tickets                                                         28
Acknowledgements                                                31
Map                                                             34
LIMERICK LITERARY FESTIVAL - in honour of Kate O'Brien
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           he Festival, formerly known      RTE Arena hosted by Sean Rocks.          Festival, The National Library of        to hear about the books that both
           as Kate O’Brien Weekend, is      Irish National Opera, in a new and       Ireland in partnership with Limerick     inspire and console.
           this year celebrating its 35th   exciting partnership with Limerick       Literary Festival will present The
anniversary. The event continues            Literary Festival, will co-present the   Blank Page featuring Martin Dyar,        The 4th annual Kate O’Brien award
to honour the life and works of the         opening night musical recital and        Clodagh Beresford Dunne, and Niall       for a debut novel from an Irish female
Limerick author while attracting            include works from Kate O’Brien’s        MacMonagle who will explore the          author will be announced on Sunday,
prominent participants from all over        novel As Music And Splendour.            making of a poem.                        February 24th from the following
the world. Building on this significant                                                                                       shortlist :
history, the Limerick Literary Festival     Also with us for the weekend are         Dolans is where edgy entertainment
seeks to promote Limerick nationally        internationally renowned American        meets irreverent comedy at 8pm on        • Teethmarks on my Tongue by Eileen
as a place of literary excellence and to    writer Richard Ford whose novel          Saturday, February 23rd in the shape     Battersby
provide a platform where readers can        Wildlife was recently adapted for        of International award-winning play      • He is Mine and I Have No Other by
meet their favourite authors and other      the screen by Paul Dano, bestselling     The Morning After the Life Before,       Rebecca O’Connor
readers.                                    author Louise O’Neill, the celebrated    fresh from runs in Montreal, London      • Promising Young Women by
                                            essayist Emilie Pine, the renowned       and New York. The show will be           Caroline O’Donoghue
The Festival is one of Ireland’s most       biographer Lyndall Gordon, critically    followed by a panel discussion with      • The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
vibrant and successful festivals which      acclaimed novelist David Park, the       Playwright/ performer Ann Blake,         • Follow Me To Ground by Sue
has been running since 1984 and it          award-winning author and No 1            Emilie Pine, Niall MacMonagle,           Rainsford
showcases in a diverse and eclectic         bestseller Liz Nugent who will be        Mary Coll and RTÉ producer Paula
programme the best in Irish and             in conversation with Riverdance          Shields.                                 The Limerick Literary Festival in
international contemporary literature.      composer Bill Whelan.                                                             honour of Kate O’ Brien is kindly
                                                                                     Irish novelist and academic Éilis        supported by the Arts Council
A packed programme for 2019                 In partnership with the French           Ní Dhuibhne will talk about Kate         Festivals Investment Scheme and
includes talks, interviews, panel           Embassy in Ireland, we have French       O’Brien and her work.                    Limerick City and County Council
discussions, poetry, an award-winning       writer and film director Philippe                                                 Festival and Events Grant Scheme.
play, a debut book award, and a music       Claudel ( il y a longtemps que je        Desert Island Books is a very popular
recital.                                    t’aime starring Kristin Scott Thomas).   event on the programme and this          We gratefully acknowledge our
                                            Limerick poets Jo Slade and Ciaran       year it will be presented by David       sponsors, supporters and friends.
The Festival highlights include             O’Driscoll will read in the Granary      Park and Eileen Battersby’s daughter
acclaimed journalist Lara Marlowe,          Library on Friday morning. Adam          Nadia. Nadia Whiston Battersby has       Finally, we hope you will enjoy the
who will open the Festival in the Hunt      Wyeth will talk about the legacy of      offered to step in as a tribute to her   2019 festival, which celebrates
Museum on Friday, February 22nd,            Limerick poet Desmond O’Grady.           late mother who died just before         writers, artists, books and readers.
followed by an outside broadcast by         A special highlight this year for the    Christmas. It’s always wonderful                                                5
LIMERICK LITERARY FESTIVAL - in honour of Kate O'Brien
Poetry readings, with Jo Slade and                                         Adam Wyeth on Limerick poet Desmond
Ciaran O’Driscoll                                                          O’Grady
Friday 22nd February,                                                      Friday 22nd February,
11am                                                                       1pm
The Granary, Limerick City Library                                         Culture House, Pery Square
Free Event                                                                 Free Event

                    Ciaran O’Driscoll, born in Callan, Co. Kilkenny                           Adam Wyeth is a poet, playwright and essayist.
                    in 1943 and living in Limerick, is a member of                            Adam’s debut collection Silent Music (Salmon
                    Aosdána. He has published six collections of                              Poetry, 2011) was Highly Commended by the
                    poetry, including Gog and Magog (Salmon, 1987),                           Forward Poetry Prize. In 2013 Salmon published
                    Moving On, Still There (Dedalus, 2001), and Life                          his essays, The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling
                    Monitor (Three Spires Press, 2009). His most                              Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry.
                    recent poetry publication is the chapbook, The                            His second collection The Art of Dying (2016)
                    Speaking Trees (SurVision Books, 2018). He has                            was named as an Irish Times Book of the Year.
                    won a number of awards for his work, including                            His plays have been produced in Ireland, Berlin
                    the James Joyce Prize and the Patrick and                                 and New York. He teaches Creative Writing at
                    Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.                                  adamwyeth.com.

                    Jo Slade is a poet and painter. She is the author of                      Adam’s 30 minute documentary on the renowned
                    five collections of poetry and two chapbooks of                           Limerick poet will also be screened.
                    poems, The Artist’s Room, (Pighog Press, Brighton,
                    UK 2010) & The White Cottage (T-A-R Publications)
                    Her most recent collection, The Painter’s House
                    published by (Salmon Poetry in 2013) was joint
                    winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Prize 2014.
                    Her installation/exhibition, The White Cottage took
                    place in The Sailor’s Home 2016. A forthcoming
                    collection, Cycles and Lost Monkeys will be
6                   published by Salmon Poetry, March 2019.                                                                                     7
LIMERICK LITERARY FESTIVAL - in honour of Kate O'Brien
Official Festival Opening by                                              RTE Radio 1 Arena Live, presented
Lara Marlowe                                                              by Sean Rocks followed by Irish
                                                                          National Opera
Friday 22nd February,                                                     Friday 22nd February,
6pm                                                                       7pm
The Hunt Museum                                                           The Hunt Museum
€15 (€13 concession) includes all evening events                          See p.8

                    As France correspondent for The Irish Times                              RTE Radio 1 Arts and Culture programme, Arena,
                    newspaper, Lara Marlowe has observed French                              presented by Sean Rocks, will broadcast live from
                    politics at close range for more than 20 years.                          the Limerick Literary Festival in the Hunt Museum.
                    She spent four years in Washington DC covering                           Sean will chat with Richard Ford, Lyndall Gordon
                    Barack Obama’s first presidential term, and has                          and other guests.
                    worked extensively in the Middle East. Before
                    joining the Irish Times in 1996, Marlowe was Beirut
                    bureau chief for Time Magazine.

                    She holds degrees from UCLA, the Sorbonne and
                    Oxford, and has won three press awards. She is                           Irish National Opera, in partnership with the
                    the author of The Things of Seen; Nine Lives of a                        Limerick Literary Festival, will co-present the
                    Foreign Correspondent, and Painted With Words.                           opening night musical recital and include works
                    The French government made her a Chevalier                               from Kate O’Brien’s novel As Music And Splendour.
                    de la Légion d’honneur for her contribution to
                    Franco-Irish relations.

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Louise O’Neill                                                           Lyndall Gordon
Saturday 23rd February,                                                  Saturday 23rd February,
10am                                                                     11am
The Hunt Museum                                                          The Hunt Museum
€14 (€12 concession)                                                     €14 (€12 concession)

                   Louise O’Neill grew up in Clonakilty, Co Cork.                           Lyndall Gordon is the prize-winning author of six
                   Her first novel, Only Ever Yours, was released in                        biographies,including Lives Like Loaded Guns :
                   2014. Only Ever Yours went on to win the Sunday                          Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds and The
                   Independent Newcomer of the Year at the 2014                             Imperfect Life of TS Eliot, and also Shared Lives, a
                   Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards; the Children’s                       memoir of women’s friendship in her native South
                   Books Ireland Eilis Dillon Award for a First                             Africa. Her latest, Outsiders, tells the stories of
                   Children’s Book; and The Bookseller’s inaugural                          five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George
                   YA Book Prize 2015. Louise’s second novel, Asking                        Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their
                   For it, was published in September 2015 to                               famous novels.
                   widespread critical acclaim. She went on to win
                   the Specsaver’s Senior Children’s Book of the Year                       She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature,
                   at the 2015 Irish Book Awards, the Literature Prize                      and lives in Oxford where she is a fellow of St
                   at Irish Tatler’s Women of the Year Awards, and the                      Hilda’s College.
                   American Library Association’s Michael L. Printz
                   award. Asking For It was voted Book of the Year at
                   the Irish Books Awards 2015 and spent 52 weeks in
                   the Irish top 10 bestseller list.

                   O’ Neill’s first novel for adults, Almost Love, was
                   published in March 2018. The Surface Breaks,
                   her feminist re-imagining of The Little Mermaid,
                   followed in May 2018 and was shortlisted for the
                   Irish Book Awards and the National Book Awards
10                 in the UK.                                                                                                                     11
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In partnership with the French Embassy in Ireland

                                                                        Philippe Claudel interviewed by Dr Loïc
Emilie Pine                                                             Guyon
Saturday 23rd February,                                                 Saturday 23rd February,
12pm                                                                    1:45pm
The Hunt Museum                                                         The Hunt Museum
€14 (€12 concession)                                                    €14 (€12 concession)

                   Emilie Pine is Associate Professor of Modern                               Philippe Claudel is a French writer and film
                   Drama at the School of English, Drama and Film,                            director. He directed the 2008 film I’ve Loved You
                   University College Dublin. Emilie has published                            So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t’aime) which won
                   widely as an academic and critic, and is editor of                         the 2009 BAFTA for the best film not in English.
                   the Irish University Review journal.
                                                                                              His best-known work to date is the novel Les Âmes
                   Her first collection of personal essays, Notes to                          grises (Grey Souls), which won the Prix Renaudot
                   Self, was published in 2018 by Tramp Press.                                in France, was shortlisted for the American
                                                                                              Gumshoe Award, and won Sweden’s Martin Beck
                   Emilie will also partake in a panel discussion                             Award. He won the 2003 Prix Goncourt de la
                   with playwright/performer Ann Blake, Niall                                 Nouvelle for Les petites mécaniques, and the 2010
                   MacMonagle, Mary Coll and RTÉ producer Paula                               Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, for Brodeck’s
                   Shields following The Morning After The Life                               Report, his hallucinatory story – almost a dark
                   Before. See p.19                                                           fairy-tale in which Kafka meets the Grimms – of an
                                                                                              uneasy homecoming after wrenching tragedy. In
                                                                                              addition to his writing and directing, Philippe is a
                                                                                              Professor of Literature at the University of Nancy.

                                                                                              Philippe’s film Il y a longtemps que je t’aime will
                                                                                              be shown with English subtitles on Friday 22nd
                                                                                              February at the Hunt Museum at 12:30pm. He will
12                                                                                            introduce it. This is a free event.                   13
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David Park                                                              Martin Dyar
Saturday 23rd February,                                                 Saturday 23rd February,
2:30pm                                                                  4pm
The Hunt Museum                                                         The Hunt Museum
€14 (€12 concession)                                                    The Blank Page Event. See p.18

                   David Park is the author of nine novels and                             Martin Dyar, poet, playwright, novelist, was born
                   two collections of short stories. The Truth                             in Sligo. Grew up in Swinford, County Mayo,
                   Commissioner (Bloomsbury 2008) was awarded                              studied at NUIG, Southen Illinois University and
                   the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and adapted for                          Trinity College where he wrote a PhD thesis on
                   film; The Light of Amsterdam (Bloomsbury 2012)                          the American poet Wallace Stevens. He was
                   was shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize and The Poets’                      awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award
                   Wives (Bloomsbury 2014) was Belfast’s One City                          in 2009, the Strokestown International Poetry
                   One Book. He has won the Authors’ Club First                            Award in 2001. His collection Maiden Names,
                   Novel Award, received a Major Artist Award from                         published in 2013, contains his poem ‘Death and
                   the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the                            the host Office’ and it’s a prescribed poem on the
                   American Ireland Award for Literature.                                  2019 Leaving Certificate. That same poem was
                                                                                           described by Colm Toibin as ‘an instant classic’.
                   David’s new novel Travelling in a Strange Land is                       Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin says that ‘Martin Dyar is
                   published by Bloomsbury.                                                a poet writing close to the bones and stones
                                                                                           of a real Ireland. A landscape and its animals,
                   David will also present Desert Island Books with                        people, ghosts, are pinned down, probed and
                   Nadia Whiston Battersby on Sunday 24th. See p.24                        revealed in sharp, often witty language’ and
                                                                                           Bernard O’Donoghue has praised Dyar’s ‘narratives
                                                                                           about the strangeness of the everyday’ for their
                                                                                           ‘vividness and colour’.

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Clodagh Beresford Dunne                                                 Niall MacMonagle
Saturday 23rd February,                                                 Saturday 23rd February,
4pm                                                                     4pm
The Hunt Museum                                                         The Hunt Museum
The Blank Page Event. See p.18                                          The Blank Page Event. See p.18

                   Clodagh Beresford Dunne was born in Dublin and                          Niall MacMonagle is a writer and critic and
                   grew up in Dungarvan. She studied English and                           broadcasts frequently on RTE Radio 1. He writes
                   Law and qualified as a solicitor. An international                      a weekly art column for the Sunday Independent
                   debater and public speaker, she represented                             and has edited several anthologies including
                   Ireland three times at the World University                             Real Cool, Outside In, Slow Time, Off the Wall,
                   Championships, has been awarded several literary                        The Open Door Book of Poetry, the Lifelines
                   bursaries and residencies. From a newspaper                             anthologies, the Leaving Certificate anthology
                   background, Beresford published her first story                         Poetry Now, TEXT - A Transition Year English
                   when she was eight and her poetry has been                              Reader and Windharp: Poems of Ireland since 1916
                   published and broadcast here and in the US.                             [Penguin 2015].

                   Her poem Seven Sugar Cubes was published in                             In 2017 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate by
                   the Irish Times and was voted Listowel Writers’                         UCD for services to literature.
                   Week Irish Poem of the Year Award at the 2017
                   Irish Book Awards. Thomas McCarthy has said of                          Niall will also partake in a panel discussion with
                   Beresford Dunne that she is a writer of immense                         playwright/performer Ann Blake, Emilie Pine, Mary
                   seriousness and purpose. Her poems announce                             Coll and RTÉ producer Paula Shields following The
                   a new vision to us, a new vortex of energy that                         Morning After The Life Before. See p.19
                   localises human experience and domesticated
                   genius.                                                                 He will also be in conversation with Richard Ford
                                                                                           on Sunday 24th. See p.25

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The National Library of Ireland Presents                                    Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien and Dolans
                                                                            Presents

The Blank Page                                                              The Morning After The Life Before

                       ‘If I knew where poems came from, I’d go there’. -                         A groggy Sunday morning, May 24th 2015 and
                       Michael Longley                                                            62% of Ireland is #hungoverforequality, Ann gets
                                                                                                  a text from her brother: “How’s the morning after
                       This event explores the genesis, the making and                            the life before?”
                       remaking of a poem of theirs with award-winning
                       poets Clodagh Beresford Dunne (p.16) and Martin                            Gúna Nua presents the internationally acclaimed
                       Dyar (p.15). Where do poems come from? How is                              and multi award winning, The Morning After
                       a poem shaped and re-shaped? How does a poet                               The Life Before as part of The Limerick Literary
                       choose a particular form, stanza structure, line                           Festival, Kate O’Brien Weekend. Running for one
Saturday                                                                    Saturday
                       length? What happens between a blank page and                              night only on February 23rd in Dolans Warehouse,
23rd February,                                                              23rd February,
4pm                    the finished work?                                   7:30pm                the show is a personal, entertaining tale of
The Hunt Museum                                                             Dolans                weddings, ‘coming out’ and arguments over who
€14 (€12               Such questions and others will be explored           €15                   takes out the bins.
concession)            with Clodagh and Martin with particular focus
                       on particular poems. The conversation will be        The show will         Written by Ann Blake, directed by Paul Meade,
                       moderated by Niall MacMonagle (p.17).                be followed by a      performed by Ann Blake and Lucia Smyth, The
                                                                            panel discussion      Morning After The Life Before is a light-hearted,
                                                                            with playwright/      playful telling of a true story. Be prepared for
                                                                            performer Ann         music, cake and equality.
                                                                            Blake, Emilie Pine,
                                                                            Niall MacMonagle,     “★★★★★...a perfectly rendered, heart-warming,
                                                                            Mary Coll and RTÉ     necessary light in the darkest of moments”
                                                                            producer Paula        Heather Bagnall, www.fringereview.co.uk
                                                                            Shields.
                                                                                                  “Blake and Smyth’s timing is incredible...uproariously
                                                                                                  quick wit ★★★★★”

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Mary Coll                                                                 Paula Shields
Saturday 23rd February,                                                   Saturday 23rd February,
7:30pm                                                                    7:30pm
Dolans Warehouse                                                          Dolans Warehouse
The Morning After The Life Before Discussion. See p.19                    The Morning After The Life Before Discussion. See p.19

                    In addition to having done her MA thesis on Kate                          An arts journalist since the 1990s, Paula Shields
                    O’Brien at NUIG, Mary is a poet, playwright and                           has worked in print, TV and now radio – on Arena,
                    broadcaster from Limerick.                                                RTE’s flagship arts show. She has hosted many
                                                                                              live public events - favourite interviewees include
                    The first female editor of The Stony Thursday Book,                       Margaret Atwood and Donal Ryan.
                    her publications include All Things Considered
                    (Salmon 2002) and Silver ( Arlen House 2018).                             She is also Chair of the judging panel for the 2018
                    She has made numerous contributions to Arts                               Irish Times Theatre Awards.
                    and Culture programmes on RTE Radio One, RTE
                    Lyric FM, and RTE Televsion, and has worked
                    as a critic for The Irish Independent and other
                    national newspapers. Stage productions of
                    Excess Baggage (2007) and Anything But Love
                    (2010) were produced at The Belltable Arts
                    Centre Limerick. Other work includes radio plays
                    commissioned by RTE Drama On One, lyrics
                    for the Choral Work ‘Spirestone’ and two award
                    winning art song cycles in association with the
                    Limerick composer Fiona Linnane, and a new play
                    Diamond Rocks: Sunset, commissioned by The
                    Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick.

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Kate O’Brien Hour featuring Éilis Ní                                      Liz Nugent in conversation with
Dhuibhne                                                                  Bill Whelan
Sunday 24th February,                                                     Sunday 24th February,
10am                                                                      11am
The Lime Tree Theatre                                                     The Lime Tree Theatre
€14 (€12 concession)                                                      €14 (€12 concession)

                   Éilis Ní Dhuibhne writes fiction, drama and non-                          Liz Nugent had several careers before turning
                   fiction in Irish and English, and is also a literary                      her hand to writing. In early 2014 her first novel,
                   critic. She has published over 25 books, including                        Unravelling Oliver, was published. It went straight
                   six collections of short stories. Her latest book is                      to the top of the bestsellers list and also won the
                   Selected Stories (Dalkey Archive, 2017). She has                          Crime Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.
                   won many awards for her work, including Irish Pen                         Television rights for Unravelling Oliver have been
                   Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Irish                            optioned by Appian Way, Leonardo Di Caprio’s
                   Literature in 2015, and a Hennessy Hall of Fame                           production company in Los Angeles.
                   Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2016. She is a
                   member of Aosdana.                                                        Her second novel, Lying in Wait, was published
                                                                                             in July 2016 and also went straight to number 1.
                   Éilis will talk about Kate O’Brien and her work.                          It won the Ryan Tubridy Listener’s Choice prize
                                                                                             at the Irish Book Awards and was shortlisted for
                                                                                             Crime Novel of the Year.

                                                                                             In Oct 2017, Liz won the Irish Woman of the Year
                                                                                             Award for Literature.

                                                                                             Liz’s books have been translated into 18
                                                                                             languages. Her third novel, Skin Deep, was
                                                                                             published in Ireland in April 2018, hit the number
                                                                                             1 spot and spent five months in the top ten
22                                                                                           bestsellers list.                                     23
Desert Island Books presented by David                                   Richard Ford in conversation with Niall
Park and Nadia Whiston Battersby                                         MacMonagle
Sunday 24th February,                                                    Sunday 24th February,
12:30pm                                                                  2:00pm
The Lime Tree Theatre                                                    The Lime Tree Theatre
€14 (€12 concession)                                                     €15 (€13 concession)

                   Nadia was born in Dublin in 1994. There she                             Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize winning American
                   lived with her mother, Eileen Battersby, until they                     novelist, story-writer and essayist. He’s published
                   moved to Kildare when Nadia was five. Nadia                             twelve books, which have been translated into 35
                   finished her secondary education in Hertfordshire,                      languages.
                   England and since graduating from the University
                   of Manchester in 2017; Nadia has worked in                              He lives in Boothbay, Maine, in the United
                   publishing and as a teacher in secondary schools                        States, was formerly professor in Trinity College,
                   in South-East London. In September Nadia                                Dublin, and at present is Mellon Professor in the
                   will commence her MA in English Literature,                             Humanities at Columbia University in the city of
                   specialising in Romanticism at The University of                        New York.
                   Glasgow.

                   David Park : See p.14

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schedule

Friday 22nd February        Saturday 23rd February     Sunday 24th February

11:00am : Poetry            10:00am - 10:50am :        10:00am - 11:00am : Kate
readings, with Jo Slade &   Louise O’Neill @ The       O’Brien Hour featuring
Ciaran O’Driscoll @ City    Hunt Museum                Éilis Ní Dhuibhne @ The
Library, The Granary                                   Lime Tree Theatre
                            11:00am - 11:50am :
12:30pm : Screening of      Lyndall Gordon @ The       11:00am - 12:00pm : Liz
Il y a longtemps que je     Hunt Museum                Nugent in conversation
t’aime / I’ve Loved You                                with Bill Whelan @ The
So Long. Introduced by      12:00pm - 1:00pm :         Lime Tree Theatre
director Philippe Claudel   Emilie Pine @ The Hunt
@ The Hunt Museum           Museum                     12:30pm - 2:00pm :
                                                       Desert Island Books
1:00pm : Adam Wyeth on      1:45pm - 2:30pm :          presented by Nadia
poet Desmond O’Grady        Philippe Claudel           Whiston Battersby &
@ Culture House, Pery       interviewed by Dr Loïc     David Parks @ The Lime
Square                      Guyon @ The Hunt           Tree Theatre
                            Museum
6:00pm : Official                                      2:00pm - 4:00pm :
Opening by Lara             2:30pm - 3:30pm :          Richard Ford in
Marlowe @ The Hunt          David Park @ The Hunt      conversation with Niall
Museum                      Museum                     MacMonagle @ The Lime
                                                       Tree Theatre
7:00pm : RTE Radio 1        4:00pm - 5:00pm :
Arena Live with Sean        The National Library of    4:00pm : Presentation
Rocks @ The Hunt            Ireland presents The       of the 2019 Kate O’Brien
Museum                      Blank Page with Niall      Award @ The Lime Tree
                            MacMonagle, Clodagh        Theatre
8:00pm : As Music and       Beresford Dunne &
Splendour in partnership    Martin Dyar @ The Hunt
with the Irish National     Museum
Opera @ The Hunt
Museum                      7:30pm : The Morning
                            After The Life Before by
9:00pm : Festival Club      Ann Blake, followed by
@ The Hunt Museum           a panel discussion with
                            Playwright/ performer
                            Ann Blake, Emilie Pine,
                            Niall MacMonagle, Mary
                            Coll and RTÉ producer
                            Paula Shields @ Dolans
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weekend pass                                                                 Kate O’Brien Hour featuring Éilis Ní Dhuibhne
                                                                             10am, Sunday 24th February, The Lime Tree Theatre
February 22nd - February 24th | €125/€100                                    Standard Ticket €14, Concession Ticket €12

The Festival Weekend Pass allows entry to all of the events during the       Liz Nugent in conversation with Bill Whelan
Limerick Literary Weekend.                                                   11am, Sunday 24th February, The Lime Tree Theatre
                                                                             Standard Ticket €14, Concession Ticket €12

individual ticket prices                                                     Desert Island Books with David Park and Nadia Whiston Battersby
                                                                             12:30pm, Sunday 24th February, The Lime Tree Theatre
Official Opening by Lara Marlowe, ARENA Live with Sean Rocks,                Standard Ticket €14, Concession Ticket €12
Musical Interlude featuring the Irish National Opera
6pm, Friday 22nd February, The Hunt Museum                                   Kate O’Brien Lecture - Richard Ford in conversation with Niall
Standard Ticket €15, Concession Ticket €13                                   MacMonagle
                                                                             Standard Ticket €15, Concession Ticket €13
Louise O’Neill, 10am | Lyndall Gordon, 11am | Emilie Pine, 12pm | Philippe
Claudel, 1:45pm | David Park, 2:30pm
Saturday 23th February, The Hunt Museum                                      Tickets can be purchased at the Lime Tree Theatre. Box Office: 061
Standard Ticket €14 each, Concession Ticket €12 each                         953400 or online at www.limetreetheatre.ie

The National Library of Ireland presents The Blank Page featuring Niall      Tickets may be purchased at the door for individual sessions, while
MacMonagle, Clodagh Beresford Dunne and Martin Dyar,                         tickets are still available. Concession tickets are available for student,
4pm, Saturday 23rd February, The Hunt Museum                                 senior and un-waged purchases.
Standard Ticket €14, Concession Ticket €12
                                                                             Please note that ticket capacity is limited at all events, tickets will be
The Morning After The Life Before by Ann Blake. Followed by a panel          issued on a first come first served basis. Please allow time to purchase
discussion with playwright/performer Ann Blake, Emilie Pine, Niall           tickets on the door as no late comers will be permitted once an event
MacMonagle, Mary Coll and RTÉ producer Paula Shield.                         commences.
7:30pm, Saturday 23rd February, Dolans Warehouse
Standard Ticket €15                                                          To book tickets for The Morning After The Life Before, please see
                                                                             www.dolans.ie
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Thank you to all our funders, sponsors, supporters, participants, friends and
                                                                          visitors for their generosity and support of Limerick Literary Festival in honour
                                                                          of Kate O’Brien. A special thank you to The Hunt Museum for their generosity
                                                                          in accommodating Friday and Saturday’s events. Also a special thank you to
                                                                          the Limerick Culture and Arts Office team for their invaluable support.

                                                                          Funders : Arts Council, Limerick City and County Council
   UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK M.A. in CREATIVE WRITING
                                                                          Partners & Supporters : The Hunt Museum, French Embassy in Ireland,
                   2019/2020
UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   M.A.                                             National Library, Opera Ireland, O’Mahony’s Booksellers, Culture and Arts
in CREATIVE WRITING                                                       Office, Lime Tree Theatre, No.1 Pery Square Hotel and Spa, Dolans, Culture
2019/2020 WITH JOSEPH O’CONNOR, DONAL RYAN,                               House, Absolute Hotel Limerick, RTE Radio 1, Helen O’Donnell, Limerick City
    SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD, MARTIN DYAR, ROB DOYLE                        Library, Bella Italia, David Punch & Co Solicitors, Fines Jewellers Limerick,
  and other award-winning and internationally acclaimed authors           Brian Geary Car Sales, Country Choice, Leahy & Partners Solicitors, Piccola
                                                                          Italia, Savins Music Centre, Lawless Flowers, Kleiser Pianos, Alex Findlater &
This one-year programme enables students to develop their Creative        Co, George Hotel Limerick, UL Creative Writing.
Writing skills while working with a first-rate team. Our students enjoy
visits and readings from outstanding contemporary authors. Visitors       Organising Committee : Vivienne McKechnie, Marie Hackett, Eileen
to UL Creative Writing have included Colum McCann, Anne Enright,          O’Connor, Valerie Dolan, Anne Marie Gill, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Darren
Louise O’Neill, John Boyne, Kit de Waal, Kevin Barry, Sara Baume, Liz     O’Dea, Denise Whelan.
      Nugent, Marian Keyes and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford.
                                                                          Festival Administrator : Ella Daly
Recent graduates have been published nationally and internationally
and have won or been shortlisted for major literary prizes, including     The Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien is proudly supported
the Hennessy New Writer of the Year Award, the RTE Francis McManus        by the Arts Council Festivals Investment Scheme and Limerick City and
Award, the Listowel Writers’ Week Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award,       County Council Festival and Events Grant Scheme.
the Arts Council Next Generation Award and the Irish Writers’ Centre
Novel Fair Award. Mature students and international students are
       always a welcome part of our MA Creative Writing class.

    Application is open now. For details and programme content,
    contact: Prof Joseph O’Connor | Email: joseph.oconnor@ul.ie
                                                                                                                              design/layout : www.juleshackett.com
partners   supporters
1 The Hunt Museum
      2 Dolans
      3 Lime Tree Theatre
      4 Culture House, Pery Square
      5 The Granary, Limerick City Library
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