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Children’s Library

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Triskel Christchurch

Triskel Christchurch

Triskel Christchurch

City Library

City Library

Triskel Christchurch

City Library

Triskel Christchurch

Debbie Thomas Author Visit and creative writing workshopDebbie worked for ten years in Bangladesh and South Africa as a development journalist for aid agencies and newspapers. Now a children’s writer, Debbie is passionate about encouraging confidence and creative thinking in young people, believing everyone is uniquely creative, often in ways overlooked by the school curriculum.

STUDENT BOOKSLaunch of books written by transition year students from St. Angela’s College. Special guest Louise O’Neill. Note: Louise will also be reading her favourite passage from Charlotte Brontë at the City Library tonight at 19.00 (see below).

Charlotte Brontë’s Birthday!Charlotte Brontë was born on 21 April 1816; come and celebrate her 200th birthday with Louise O’Neill, Maureen O’Connor, and Kathy D’Arcy, who will read their favourite pieces of Charlotte’s work, and talk about her influence on them.

IRELAND: 100 years on The State in post-election Ireland? Deaglán de Bréadún with Ursula Halligan

De Bréadún’s Power Play: the Rise of modern Sinn Féin revealed the most enthralling political story of 2015, written by one of the most experienced political journalists in Ireland.

Ursula Halligan is the highly respected and experienced political editor of Ireland’s main independent television station, TV3.

Deirdre Ryan presents Story, Rhythm and RhymeDeirdre’s sessions for young children and their grown-ups are a firm favourite with Library regulars. Through story, movement and rhyme Deirdre engages her young audience in a fun way that helps to build pre-literacy skills and a love of books and reading.

Tell-a-Tale Children’s Theatre presentsMax and Millie’s Midnight Adventure: music, shadow puppetry and a variety of characters and animal puppets. Guaranteed fun for all ages.

"Will's Women" by Chattyboo ProductionsScenes from Shakespeare with Angela Newman and Judie Chalmers

RTE CONTEMPO QUARTET Described by The Strad magazine as “a polished and professional group…full of exuberance with a fine sense of ensemble”, the RTÉ Contempo Quartet is one of the most exciting and vibrant chamber ensembles performing today.

Comedy with Maeve Higgins Cobh native Maeve Higgins’ book Off you Go. Away from home and loving it. Sort of. ‘Off you Go’ charts her move to the Big Apple. She will discuss the move, the book, and everything else besides with writer Paul McVeigh who is himself no stranger to comedy.

Galician poet Elvira Ribeiro, with Keith Payne

Martha Tennant, internationally known translator of Catalan literature. Followed by delicious Catalan food and drink in the City Library, courtesy of the Cork World Book Fest.DISFRUTEU de la FESTA CATALANA dels LLIBRES i la LITERATURA a CORK

A CELEBRATION OF BOOKSLaunch of new short story collections by Mary Morrissy and William Wall. Prosperity Drive by Mary Morrissy is published by Cape. Hearing Voices. Seeing Things by William Wall is published by Doire Press. Introduced by Hilary Lennon.

This event is in honour of former Triskel Arts Centre Director Penny Rae who died in 2015, and who helped establish the first Cork World Book Fest in 2005. Special guest is her partner Carl Cordonnier, photographer, who has compiled a book on Penny’s life.

Triskel Christchurch - Friday 15th April - 20.00 FREE

CONFLICT ‘TRANSFORMATION’ - SYRIA, TURKEY, MOROCCOSpeakers include award winning Hungarian journalist Dr. Hesna Al Ghaoui, correspondent, anchor, foreign editor and reporter; Dr. Cengiz Günay from Turkey, a senior researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs whose fields of research are Islamist movements and transition processes. Special guest is Mohamed Fahmi from Morocco who is head of the Moroccan network of the Anna Lindh Foundation for Intercultural Dialogue. Triskel is currently head of the Irish network of the Foundation.

Sponsored by the Anna Lindh Foundation for Intercultural Dialogue.

Events at Triskel can be booked online at www.triskelartscentre.ie or by calling 021 4272022

19-23 APRIL

City Library | Grand Parade | Christchurch

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Mary Morrissy William Wall

Maeve Higgins

Dr. Theresa Reidy, Department of Government UCC , will facilitate this event.

Voices from another Spain

The CONSTANT READER: Agents, authors and publishersThomas Davis Room, City Library FREE but booking essential

Agent Panel: Simon Trewin (WME) & Polly Nolan (The Greenhouse Literary Agency) Chair, Vanessa O’Loughlin

Author panel: Hazel Gaynor, Alana Kirk & Elizabeth Murray, Chair M. Malone

Getting published: Vanessa O’Loughlin

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OFFICIAL OPENING Cllr. Chris O’Leary, Árdmhéara Chorcaí, will officialy open the 12th edition of the Cork World Book Fest. Followed immediately by:

The Poets Rising: World Voices This year’s Fest, a century on from 1916, will open with The Poets Rising: World Voices. Four of the seven signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic were poets. The featured poets in the opening event, from four different cultures, are: Bejan Matur, from Istanbul; the renowned Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti; the 2nd Scottish Makar (national poet) Liz Lochhead, and Itxaro Borda, a young poet from Euzkadi (Basque country).Introduced by Nuala Finnegan, UCC School of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies.

14.30 FREECity Library

10.00 FREEChildren’s Library

19.00 FREECity Library

20.30 FREECity Library

20.30 €6/5Triskel Christchurch

11.30 FREE but booking essentialChildren’s Library

17:00 -18:00 FREE but booking essentialCity Library

19.00 FREECity Library

20.30 FREECity Library

21.15 FREETriskel GULP’D

‘WINTER PAGES 1’ Kevin Barry and Olivia SmithKevin Barry will read his ‘Cork’ story from the first volume of this new arts anthology of stories, essays, reportage, photography and visual. In amongst the detail and the ‘anecdotage,’ the authors pose the questions: how do you do what it is that you do?

TEEN DAY - Spread the Words... Launches, interviews, readings, workshops, film screenings, art installations, competitions and more.

Cork Community Art Link / St Vincent’s Secondary School unveil their art installation ‘The Trouble With Words’

Adult Library from 10:30• Launches and Presentations • Including at 12 noon launch of Unfinished Book 2016

Cork City Libraries’ Teen Committee, in conjunction with Framework Films, Judie Chalmers and IES Ltd. For a full programme listing contact:eibhlin_cassidy@corkcity.ie

Andrey Mashinyan is a poet, short story writer, and Director of the Irish Cultural Centre of St. Petersburg. His work has been praised by, among other, the late Seamus Heaney. He is currently writing a book on Ireland for a Russian audience.

‘My Five Favourite Revolutionary Writers’ Ed Vulliamy Author and journalist (The Guardian and The Observer), Ed Vulliamy’s experiences covering the Balkan conflict in the early 1990s, New York at the time of 9/11, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the Mexican cartels, have made him as interested in what should be, as in what is. Introduced by Liam Ronayne.

20 City Library, all day from 10:30

Children’s Library from 12:30• Incredible Interviews and Random Readings

Thomas Davis Room from 12 noon • Workshops and Screenings

NOVELS – FACT AND FICTIONNuala Ní Chonchúir’s Miss Emily reimagines the private life of poet Emily Dickinson through her own voice and through the eyes of her family’s Irish maid. Rob Doyle’s This is the Ritual splices fiction with non-fiction in this collection of 10 new stories by one of Ireland’s new literary talents. Introduced by Jean Brennan, Arts Officer, Cork City Council.

Short-short storiesReadings facilitated by Hilary Lennon and Ciaran Meade, in association with Triskel’s creative writing workshops. Special guest Sara Baume.

Story, Rhythm and Rhyme Deirdre Ryan presents Story, Rhythm and Rhyme. Deirdre’s sessions for young children and their grown-ups are a firm favourite with Library regulars. Through story, movement and rhyme Deirdre engages her young audience in a fun way that helps to build pre-literacy skills and a love of books and reading.

The Lonely Flower Audio Drama Workshop Ann Dalton is a Cork writer and producer of radio drama for children. Her dramas, including The Lonely Flower, have been broadcast by RTE Jnr. In this workshop, children get to explore how a story can begin and how it can be brought to life through audio.

MÁISTIR-RANG sa scríbhneoireacht filíochta i nGaeilge le Louis de Paor agus baill de chuid Peann & Pár – grúpa scríobhnóirí lonnaithe sa Leabharlann.

LEABHAR NA HATHGHABHÁLA beidh Biddy Jenkinson, Colbert Kearney agus Billy Ramsell ag cuidiú le Louis de Paor, chun ceiliúradh a dhéanamh ar chnuasach nua d’fhilíocht na linne seo. Leabhar na hAthghabhála is a fresh new collection of contemporary Irish-language poetry. Tonight’s event features contributors Louis de Paor and Biddy Jenkinson, and translators Colbert Kearney and Billy Ramsell.

Liberties Press authors Caitriona Lally best newcomer nominee Irish Book Awards 2015 Eggshells

Kevin Curran, author of Citizens Jan Carson author of Children’s children.

Introduced by Mary Malone.

WOMEN IN THE MUSLIM WORLD Rod Nordland & Maram al-Masri with Theo Dorgan

Pulitzer prize winning journalist and Kabul Bureau Chief for The New York Times, Rod Nordland, and Syrian poet Maram al-Masri, put a human face on the ongoing debate about women’s rights in the Muslim world.

Rod Nordland’s nonfiction book The Lovers is a real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner. Maram al-Masri’s recent collection Barefoot Souls was translated by Theo Dorgan.

20.30 FREECity Library

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KEVIN BARRY

LIZ LOCHHEAD ITXARO BORDAMOURID BARGHOUTI

Nuala Ní Chonchúir

Ed Vulliamy

Rob Doyle

19.00 FREECity Library

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JAN CARSON

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ROD NORDLAND

15:00 -16:30 FREE but booking essentialCity Library

Creative writing workshopwith Kevin Curran author of Citizens (2016) & Beatsploitation (2013).

PREPARING FOR TEEN DAY