Donal Ryan in conversation with Shane Coleman

Methodist Church Market Quay, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

Donal Ryan, from Tipperary, is the author of six novels and a short story collection. He has won several awards for his fiction, including the European Union Prize for Literature, the Guardian First Book Award and four Irish Book Awards, and has been shortlisted for several more. He was nominated for the Booker Prize in […]

€15

Storytime with Jenny O’Neill – free event at Kinsale library

Kinsale Library Church Square, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

Jenny will read stories from a selection of the most popular books for our younger audience. Suitable for tots and younger children. Please note the ALL children attending this event MUST be accompanied by an adult and we have a policy of no photography at children’s events. 

Ticket – Bookbinding workshop hosted by artist and binder Elize de Beer

The Trident Hotel Trident Hotel Kinsale World's End, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

In this introductory bookbinding workshop, you will learn how to make your own A5 stab-bound book, a binding method developed in 17th century Japan that is still used throughout the world to create notebooks and albums. All materials will be provided to create your own A5 book, and you will be able to customise your […]

€35

Mary Morrissy presents: A Literary Friendship: Remembering Hilary Mantel

Methodist Church Market Quay, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

Hilary Mantel was a renowned English writer who twice won the Booker Prize, for her best-selling novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won worldwide critical acclaim. Mantel […]

€10

Contemporary Irish writers Fíona Scarlett and Elaine Feeney in conversation with Mairead Hearne

Methodist Church Market Quay, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

Elaine Feeney writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Her debut novel As You Were won Dalkey Book Festival’s Emerging Writer Prize, the Kate O’ Brien Award, and the Society of Authors’ Mc Kitterick Prize. Her second novel How to Build a Boat was published in 2023 and has been longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize. A […]

€10

Haiku Workshop hosted by Maeve O’Sullivan

Friars Lodge Friars St. Rath More, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

Haiku is the shortest and one of the oldest poetry forms in the world, having originated in Japan in the 17th century. It is primarily a nature poem but can also be used to describe human situations. In this introductory workshop you will get a short history of the form, with examples from classical and […]

€35

Sophie White in conversation with Shane Coleman

Methodist Church Market Quay, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

Sophie White is a novelist, essayist and podcaster from Dublin. She is the author of seven books and is the current Arts Council Writer-in-Residence at DCU. Her fifth book, the bestselling memoir Corpsing, was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction. Sophie’s sixth book, Where I End, won her […]

€15

Paul Howard presents Aldrin Adams: An ordinary boy with the most EXTRAORDINARY, stinkiest superpower!

The Trident Hotel Trident Hotel Kinsale World's End, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

Aldrin Adams and the Cheese Cightmares (shortlisted for the Children's Book of the Year - Irish Book Awards) is a laugh-out-loud children's adventure story, full of mystery, magic and cheeses that seriously, SERIOUSLY pong! A brilliantly funny, heartwarming story. Aldrin Adams and the Legend of Nemeswiss - Some months have passed since Aldrin Adams discovered […]

€10

Sally Hayden in conversation with Mary Morrissy

Methodist Church Market Quay, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

Sally Hayden is a journalist and the author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route. It was her first book, and won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022, the Michel Deon Prize, the An Post Irish Book of the Year, the non-fiction book of the year at […]

€15

Paul Howard and Roddy Collins discuss The Rodfather: The hilarious memoir from the funniest man in football (with Shane Coleman)

The Trident Hotel Trident Hotel Kinsale World's End, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

Roddy Collins is a football man - now in the sixth decade of a career as a player (at 16 clubs), manager (12 clubs) and commentator. And he is a funny man: an unequalled raconteur with a sharp eye for the absurdities of the professional game and spectacular recall. He has made friends wherever he […]

€20

Poetry reading with Maeve O’Sullivan and Afric McGlinchey

Prim's Bookshop 43 Main Street, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

Named as one of Ireland’s Rising Poets by Poetry Ireland Review, Afric McGlinchey has won numerous prizes, including the Hennessy Poetry Award, Poets Meet Politics prize and several awards from the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2023, Salmon Poetry published The lucky star of hidden things, and in 2016, Ghost of the Fisher Cat, both of which were […]

€10

Local Voices: Readings from Disha Bose, Mary Morrissy, and Sara O’Donovan

The Lord Kingsale 4 Main St, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

Disha Bose’s debut novel Dirty Laundry, a domestic noir that examines the dark side of motherhood and suburbia, was published in 2023. She was born and raised in India, and now lives in Cork. She worked in the tech industry until returning to writing in 2015, when she joined the Masters in Creative Writing course […]

€10