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Enjoy this years events and festivities at Words by Water 2024 *Excluding Workshops, An evening with Marian Keyes & Tara Flynn and Children’s Walking Tour.
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AN AFTERNOON OF STORYTELLING WITH ALICE TAYLOR
Friars Lodge Friars St. Rath More, Kinsale, Cork, IrelandThe wonderful Alice Taylor needs no introduction and we are so pleased to welcome her to Kinsale to chat about her decades of writing about rural Ireland. Who better to sit down for a cuppa and a reminisce than this much-loved Irish writer, who has been a warm voice of Ireland since the publication of […]
THE GOLDEN FAIRY DOOR BY AMANDA NERI
Kinsale Library Church Square, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, IrelandAmanda Neri is an award-winning singer and director who loves to write. She has written two musicals winning the Cork Theatre Critic’s Award for best newcomer. Her other writing includes poetry and short stories. Her children’s book, The Golden Fairy Door, tells the story of how grandpa and grandma had a chance encounter with a […]
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JAN CARSON AND MICHELLE GALLEN – in conversation with Shane Coleman
Methodist Church Market Quay, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, IrelandJan Carson is a writer based in Belfast. She has published three novels, three short story collections and two micro-fiction collections. Her novel The Firestarters won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland 2019. Jan’s latest novel, The Raptures, was published in Doubleday in early 2022 and was subsequently shortlisted for the An Post Irish […]
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DR MARIE CASSIDY – in conversation with Catherine Kirwan
Methodist Church Market Quay, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, IrelandDuring her 15-year career as Ireland’s State Pathologist, Marie Cassidy became known to the Irish public as a trusted figure whose expertise helped to solve murders and clarify unexplained deaths. In over thirty years of practice, she performed thousands of post-mortems and dealt with hundreds of murders. She has witnessed the burgeoning role of forensic […]
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CREATIVE WRITING – WORKSHOP WITH FÍONA SCARLETT Rhythm and Instinct in Writing
The Trident Hotel Trident Hotel Kinsale World's End, Kinsale, Cork, IrelandListening to the rhythm of your work, finding your writing voice and learning to trust your gut. This one-hour workshop will look at the natural rhythm in all writing. It will explore how to lean into your own writing rhythm as well as tuning into your gut instinct. Only you can tell your story. Fíona […]
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€35.00
BOOKBINDING – WORKSHOP HOSTED BY ARTIST AND BINDER ELIZE DEBEER
The Trident Hotel Trident Hotel Kinsale World's End, Kinsale, Cork, IrelandIn 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 […]
STORYTIME WITH NADINE HUGHES CAMPBELL & TRISH KELLEHER
Kinsale Library Church Square, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, IrelandNadine Hughes Campbell is the author behind Noah’s Cork Adventure. Born and raised in Montréal, Nadine traded in the busy streets of her Canadian hometown for the gorgeous landscapes of Cork. This children’s author and devoted mother discovered her passion for storytelling upon the birth of her first child, turning each bedtime into a voyage […]
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DR ETHEL CROWLEY PRESENTS A TRIBUTE TO DERVLA MURPHY
Methodist Church Market Quay, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, IrelandEthel Crowley PhD is an Irish sociologist. She is the author of Land Matters, Daring to Dream and Your Place or Mine?, as well as other journal articles, book chapters and newspaper articles. Over the years, she has combined university lecturing and academic writing with travels in Latin America, the Middle East and India. She […]
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SHEILA ARMSTRONG AND NOEL O’REGAN – in conversation with Mairéad Hearne
Methodist Church Market Quay, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, IrelandSheila Armstrong is a writer and editor from the north-west of Ireland. How to Gut a Fish, her first collection of short stories, was shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award and longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. Falling Animals, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2024 and chosen for BBC2’s Between […]
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KINSALE STORIES: A WALKING TOUR FOR CHILDREN
Kinsale Tourist Office ier Rd, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, IrelandWho was the Bellman? Where was World’s End? What was a bridge of boats? When did chocolate arrive? Why fight a battle at Christmas? Step into history with Barry to find out. Barry Moloney has been a tour guide of Kinsale for the last 20 years. He has just published an illustrated history of Kinsale […]
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SINÉAD GLEESON AND NUALA O’CONNOR – in conversation with Tara Flynn | EVENT ALERT, time has been moved to 2:45pm
Methodist Church Market Quay, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, IrelandEVENT ALERT - event time has been moved to 2:45pm. Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life, was published by Picador in 2019 and won Non- Fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writers. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the […]
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