Saturday
9th June
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1.30
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Kerrie Hardy presents her forthcoming collection The Ash and
the Oak and the Wild Cherry Tree, accompanied by David Power
on uileann pipes and introduced by fellow poet Gerry Smyth.
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3.00
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Colm
Toíbín makes his latest book New Ways to Kill
Your Mother as the basis of a presentation on famous writers’
relationships to their families.
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3.45
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Journalist and filmmaker Ben Anderson (Holidays in the Axis
of Evil) meets Fintan O’Toole to discuss his gripping
account of the Afghanistan war in Helmand province, No Worse
Enemy, and his latest assignments.
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4.30
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Craig
Brown talks about the 101 meetings that make up his new book
One on One, and presents his own parodic One-Stop Literary
Festival.
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Award-winning
Irish playwright and Aosdána member Marina Carr will
talk about her work with Loughlin Deegan, Director of The Lir,
and will read from soe of her plays.
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| 6.00 |
Comedy
writer producer John Lloyd (Spitting Image, Blackadder, QI)
will be deep in conversation with Sean Hardie (Bremner, Bird
& Fortune, Not the Nine O’Clock News).
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| 7.00 |
Leviathan, a public conversation with leading commentators which
informs, entertains and engages, through satire, comedy, and
music.
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| Sunday
10th June |
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| 12.00 |
Philosopher
and novelist AC Grayling gives a sermon on The Good Book from
the pulpit of the Chapel.
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| 1.15
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Booker-prize winner Anne Enright (The Gathering) will talk about
her career as a novelist, essayist and short story writer, drawing
from her most recent work The Forgotten Waltz.
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| 1.30 |
American author and journalist and Orange-prize winner Lionel
Shriver (We Need To Talk About Kevin), will talk about her latest
book So Much For That.
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| 2.45 |
Novelist
and screenwriter John Banville gives audiences a sneak preview
from his forthcoming novel Ancient Light (to be published July
5th).
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| 3.00
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Novelist
and ‘ex-poet’ Blake Morrisson reads from his memoir
about his Kerry-born mother (Things My Mother Never Told Me)
and his recent novel The Last Weekend, which is currently being
filmed for television, and talks about a writer’s life
with John McKenna.
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| 4.15
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5×15
Stories: ‘Nomadic Lives’ Fernanda Eberstadt, Katie
Hickman, Perry Ogden, Aoife Kavanagh and Lionel Shriver all
talk passionately for fifteen minutes on a subject of their
choice
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4.30
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Best-selling novelist and travel writer Katie Hickman talks
about The Aviary Gate Series, reading from The Pindar Diamond
talking about the forthcoming A Winter Tale.
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| 5.45 |
Oscar-nominee
and film director Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons (1988,
The Van (1996), High Fidelity (2000), The Queen (2006) talks
to Dr. Orla Ryan.
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NOW. |
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| 6.00 |
Travel
writer and historical novelist William Dalrymple dramatises
passages from his novel The Last Mughal to the accompaniment
of North Indian vocalist Vidya Shah.
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| 7.15 |
Waterboys
frontman Mike Scott reads from his memoir, Adventures of a Waterboy
(2012), and gives an interview about his career.
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