DR ETHEL CROWLEY PRESENTS A TRIBUTE TO DERVLA MURPHY

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

Ethel 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 […]

€10.00

SHEILA ARMSTRONG AND NOEL O’REGAN – in conversation with Mairéad Hearne

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

Sheila 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 […]

€15.00

KINSALE STORIES: A WALKING TOUR FOR CHILDREN

Kinsale Tourist Office ier Rd, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

Who 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, Ireland

EVENT 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 […]

€15.00

RÓNÁN HESSION – in conversation with Shane Coleman

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

Rónán Hession is an Irish writer and musician based in Dublin. His debut novel, Leonard and Hungry Paul was published by Bluemoose Books in 2019. It was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, the An Post Irish Book Awards, the British Book Awards, the Books Are My Bag awards, the Dalkey […]

€15.00

AN EVENING WITH MARIAN KEYES AND TARA FLYNN

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

Marian Keyes is a phenomenon. The multimillion copy, internationally bestselling author of some of the most widely loved, genre-defying novels of the past thirty years – including Rachel’s Holiday, Anybody Out There and Grown Ups – has millions of devoted readers around the world. My Favourite Mistake is her sixteenth novel. In addition to her […]

€25.00

LOCAL VOICES

Prims Bookshop 43 Main St, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

We are always very proud and supportive of our local writers and this event is a wonderful opportunity to showcase their talent and spotlight their voices. Michelle Dunne is a crime and thriller writer from Cobh whose new psychological thriller, The Good Girl, was published by Bloodhound Books in March 2024. In July 2024, The […]

€10.00

PAPERMAKING WORKSHOP WITH CAROLINE SMITH

The Friary Space Kinsale, Cork, Ireland

Have you ever wondered how paper was made? Come and learn the ancient technique of paper making using recycled denim, vegetable matter and recycled paper. In the class we will learn how to cast leaves, grasses and other matter and also how to make sheets of paper suitable for book making and other art projects. […]

€35.00