Day: August 10, 2016

Kilkenny, Portumna, Webs, Live Poetry, Kildare, Donal Ryan, and then I collapse…

Posted Rick O'Shea

Right, I’ll be on and offline for the next few weeks on holiday (finally!) so a few things I’m involved in over the next while you might fancy coming to… August 26th – Graiguenamanagh Town Of Books: On the opening day of the festival I’ll be in the library chatting about book clubs, new books and people I’ve interviewed. It’s at 10am, just show up and their FB event is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1345590805468267/ August 27th – First Poetry Programme of the Autumn: Less a thing to come to and more a thing to listen to. We’ll be back at 7.30, as usual, […]

The Liz Nugent Interview – Galway

Posted Rick O'Shea

I have to admit, I was nervous. It’s the first time that a Book Club event has been done outside of Dublin and you just never know if anyone is going to show. Little did I need to worry… Thanks to Dubray for putting us literally in the front window (I talked to an elderly American tourist afterwards who had just head the speakers and popped in, staying for the whole event! She wanted to know if I was from the TV…) Thanks to Liz for being such a warm and giving interviewee (and I mean that genuinely – some […]