Dromineer Literary Festival 2016 Brochure

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Booking is strongly recommended for writing
workshops and the event with authors Danielle
McLaughlin & Órfhlaith Foyle on board The Spirit
of Killaloe, as places are strictly limited.
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13th Dromineer
Literary Festival
Co. Tipperary
6th - 9th October 2016
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Dromineer
Literary
Festival
Dave Redmond
Dick Farrelly
Don Share
Eleanor Hooker
Geraldine Mitchell
Graham Hopkins
Kathy D’Arcy
Marita Conlon-McKenna
Mark Fiddes
Nick Roth
Órfhlaith Foyle
Rick O’Shea
Robert Peake
Robert Ryan
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Sponsors
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•Ashley Park B&B
•Nenagh Credit Union
•Lough Derg Yacht Club,
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•The Whiskey Still,
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Aideen Henry
Anne Enright
Anthony Glavin
Caitríona O’Leary
Catherine Ann Cullen
Clodagh Beresford Dunne
Colette Bryce
Danielle McLaughlin
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Fáilte romhaibh go léir
From its first event in November 2004, Dromineer
Literary Festival has grown into a much loved and warmly
anticipated event on the autumn literary calendar. It’s a
testament to the hard work of the volunteer committee
that the festival enjoys the reputation and success
that it has today. Establishing a festival of this calibre
is
an achievement in which our entire community takes
pride, and we are grateful to the Arts Council, Tipperary
County Council Arts Office, Waterways Ireland, and
to
our local sponsors for their continued support.
Time
Our 2016 programme reflects the diverse and rich
talent in today’s international literary scene. With its
breathtaking backdrop, daytime events will be held
in Lough Derg
Yacht Club, Dromineer as well as afloat
on Lough Derg and in the historic Nenagh Castle. Dún
Mhuire (note, stairs access only) on Pearse St. and
St. Mary’s Church of Ireland, Nenagh will provide a
warm environment for our evening programme.
Competitions encourage new writing, and we have had
some
worthy winners over the years including Danielle McLaughlin,
a participating author this year. Prize-winning short stories
and poetry may be enjoyed at the awards ceremony on
Saturday afternoon at Lough Derg Yacht
Club. This year
our judges are Colette Bryce for poetry, and Anthony Glavin
for flash fiction. Poet and author Geraldine Mitchell is
judge of the Primary Schools Competition. This is a very
popular event, so be sure to come early for a good seat.
On Sunday afternoon, October 9, Marita Conlon McKenna
will talk about her novel Rebel Sisters, based on the
real life Gifford sisters – Muriel, Grace, and Nellie, three
young women at the heart of the 1916 Rising. This event
will take place in the highly atmospheric and recently
restored Nenagh Castle. Do dress warmly for this event.
Please note this venue has no wheelchair access.
For the highly popular Afloat event on Lough Derg, we
are delighted to have the two talented award winning
short story writers Danielle McLaughlin and Órfhlaith
Foyle, who will select their favourite short story by the
other and provide a critique for the audience. Places
are strictly limited, so early booking is essential.
On Saturday afternoon in Lough Derg Yacht Club poet
Don Share will introduce The Launching Party; readings
by three poets who launched poetry books this year:
Catherine Ann Cullen, Mark Fiddes and Eleanor Hooker,
all thrilled to be invited to read at the festival.
The award-winning writer and editor Kathy D’Arcy is
hosting our Transition Year writing workshops this
year. Kathy will introduce the group to a valuable
approach to writing techniques as well as inspire and
enthuse the participants towards future writing.
Fee
St. Mary’s Church of
Ireland, Church Rd.
Nenagh
€12.00/€10.00
THURSDAY OCTOBER 6
8.00pm 10.00pm
IMRAM Irish Language Literature Festival
presents - Íde na Tine – Tionscadal Joni
Mitchell, Sweet Fire – The Joni Mitchell Project
- with Caitríona O’Leary & band
FRIDAY OCTOBER 7
9.00am 3.00pm
Secondary Schools Transition Year Workshop
with writer Kathy D’Arcy
Lough Derg Yacht
Club
Free Entry
8.00pm 10.00pm
Poetry Evening with Colette Bryce, Don Share,
Robert Peake, chaired by Aideen Henry
Dún Mhuire, 50
Pearse St. Nenagh
€12.00/€10.00
SATURDAY OCTOBER 8
Masterclass Poetry Workshop with Don Share
Lough Derg Yacht
Club
€35.00
9.30am 12.30pm
‘Writing the short story’ Workshop with
Danielle McLaughlin
Lough Derg Yacht
Club
€35.00
2.30pm 3.30pm
Competition Results, readings and citations
by judges Geraldine Mitchell, Colette Bryce,
Anthony Glavin
Lough Derg Yacht
Club
Free Entry
4.00pm 5.30pm
Lough Derg Yacht
Club
€5.00
Welcome to the Dromineer Literary Festival. Your
continued support is central to the success of this
festival. We look forward to a weekend sharing our
common love of the written, spoken and visual arts.
LAUNCHING PARTY with poets Catherine
Ann Cullen, Mark Fiddes, Eleanor Hooker.
Introduced by Don Share
8.00pm 10.00pm
Meet the Authors with Anne Enright, Anthony
Glavin, Aideen Henry. Chaired by Rick O’Shea
St. Mary’s Church of
Ireland, Church Rd.
Nenagh
€12.00/€10.00
Eleanor Hooker
Chairperson
11.30pm
The Festival Club
The Whiskey Still
Free entry
Our festival exhibition, Forgotten Time, is by Limerick
based artist, Robert Ryan. Lough Gur is a source of
inspiration for Ryan’s evocative, otherworldly paintings,
which will be available to view and purchase upstairs in
Lough Derg Yacht Club throughout the festival weekend.
Ag cur tús leis an bhféile ar 6 Deireadh Fómhair, tá Íde na
Tine - Tionscadal Joni Michell. Cloisfear scoth na n-amhrán
le Mitchell aistrithe go Gaeilge ag Liam Ó Muirthile agus
Gabriel Rosenstock. Is í an t-amhránaí Caitríona O’Leary
agus a buíon cheoil a bheidh ar an ardán agus teilgfear na
liricí agus íomhánna áille a chruthaigh Margaret Lonergan.
In what promises to be an extraordinary evening
of discussions and readings, multi-award winning
authors Anne Enright, Anthony Glavin and Aideen Henry
will talk about their writing with RTÉ’s Rick O’Shea,
at our Meet the Authors event, Saturday evening,
October 8 at St. Mary’s Church of Ireland, Nenagh.
Venue
9.30am 12.30pm
The first event of the festival, October 6, is the highly
acclaimed Sweet Fire – The Joni Mitchell Project. We
will hear the very best of Mitchell’s songs translated
into Irish and performed by singer Caitríona O’Leary
and her band, with the addition of stunning screen
projections of the lyrics, created by Margaret Lonergan.
We are excited and honoured to have internationally
acclaimed poets Don Share, Colette Bryce and Robert
Peake read at our Poetry Evening at Dún Mhuire
house, Nenagh, Friday, October 7. This event is a must
for poets and poetry readers alike. A key philosophy
of the Dromineer Literary Festival is to celebrate
the creativity of emerging writers. This year, Clodagh
Beresford Dunne, recipient of the Arts Council Emerging
Writer Bursary, will open the poetry evening with
three poems from her manuscript in progress.
Event
(lunch included)
(lunch included)
Festival Team:
SUNDAY OCTOBER 9
Eleanor Hooker,
Chairperson &
Margaret Kennedy,
Programme Curator
Hospitality
Dave McAvinchey, Vice
Virginia O’Dowd, Schools
Chairperson, Irish
Programme Co-ordinator
Language Advisor
Margaret Folan, Primary
Deborah Powell, Secretary
Schools Competition
Pat Kelly, Treasurer
Co-ordinator
Geraldine Cronin,
Melanie Scott, Tipperary
Book Manager
Arts Officer
Theresa Hassey: Bookings
Liz Powell, Festival
Geraldine McNulty,
Co-ordinator
Visual Arts
Cover image: The Archipelago Vigil by Robert Ryan
12.00 midday - 2pm
Reading the short stories - authors Danielle
McLaughlin and Órfhlaith Foyle discuss a short
story by the other
Aboard The Spirit
of Killaloe from
Dromineer Harbour
€10.00
4.00pm 5.00pm
Rebel Sisters: a discussion with Marita Conlon
McKenna about her powerful novel, set in
Ireland during the 1916 Rising and based on
the real life Gifford sisters – Muriel, Grace, and
Nellie
Nenagh Castle, 24
Pearse St, Nenagh,
Co. Tipperary
NOTE: DRESS
WARMLY (No wheelchair access)
€10.00
Lough Derg Yacht
Club & Nenagh Arts
Centre
Free Entry
THURSDAY TO SUNDAY
Forgotten Time an exhibition of paintings by
our festival artist, Robert Ryan, based at Lough
Gur, Co. Limerick. Robert’s paintings will be on
view throughout the weekend.
Biographies
Aideen Henry
lives in Galway
and is a writer
and a physician.
Her short story
collection,
Hugging
Thistles, was published
by Arlen House in 2013.
Her short stories were
shortlisted for the Francis
McManus Award in Ireland
in 2011, 2012 & 2015.
Her two collections of
poetry, Hands Moving at
the Speed of Falling Snow
(2010) and Slow Bruise
(2015) were published
with Salmon Poetry.
Anne Enright
was named
Ireland’s first
fiction laureate
in 2015. She
won the Man
Booker Prize in Photograph by
2007 for The Hugh Chaloner
Gathering (Jonathan Cape)
and the Andrew Carnegie
Medal for Excellence in
Fiction in 2012 for her
novel The Forgotten Waltz
(Jonathan Cape). Her most
recent novel The Green
Road (Jonathan Cape) won
Kerry Group and Eason
Book Club Novel of the
Year awards in 2015, and
was shortlisted for the
2016 Baileys Women’s
Prize for Fiction. Her short
stories have appeared
in several magazines
including The New Yorker
and The Paris Review. Anthony
Glavin was
born in Boston.
He is the
author of two
critically acclaimed novels, Nighthawk
Alley (New Island Books)
and Colours Other Than
Blue (Ward River Press)
and two short story collections, One For Sorrow
and The Draughtsman
and The Unicorn. Editor of
‘New Irish Writing’ in the
Irish Press from 1986-88,
he served as commissioning editor for New
Island Books from 1995
to 2004.
Catherine
Ann Cullen’s
third collection
of poetry,
The Other
Now (Dedalus Press)
Oct. 2016, features new
poems and a selection
from her collections
with Doghouse: Strange
Familiar and A Bone in
My Throat. Her children’s
books, Thirsty Baby and
the award-winning The
Magical, Mystical, Marvellous Coat, were published
by Little, Brown. She has
just submitted her PhD
thesis in creative writing
at Middlesex University.
Clodagh
Beresford
Dunne is a
2016 recipient
of an Arts
Council of Ireland Emerging Writer Award Bursary.
A qualified lawyer, she was
one of two Irish poets to
deliver a series of poetry
readings and interviews
in the USA, in April 2016,
as part of Culture Ireland’s
International Programme.
Colette Bryce
is the author
of four poetry
collections,
including The
Full Indian Rope
Trick (Picador,
2004) and Self-Portrait
in the Dark (2008). Her
latest book, The Whole
& Rain-domed Universe,
was awarded a special
Ewart-Biggs Award in
memory of Seamus
Heaney in 2015. Originally
from Derry, she currently
lives in the north of
England where she works
as a freelance writer and
editor. She received the
Cholmondeley Award for
her poetry in 2010. Danielle
McLaughlin’s
stories have
appeared in
newspapers
and magazines
such as The
New Yorker, The Irish
Times and The Stinging Fly,
and have been broadcast on radio. Her debut
collection of short stories,
Dinosaurs On Other
Planets, was published in
2015 by The Stinging Fly
Press and in the UK and
US in 2016 by John Murray
and Random House.
Don Share
is the editor
of Poetry. His most
recent books
are Wishbone (Black Photograph by
Sparrow), Un- Adrian Cook
ion (Eyewear), Photography
and Bunting’s
Persia (Flood Editions);
he also edited a critical
edition of Basil Bunting’s
poems for Faber. His
translations of Miguel
Hernández was awarded
the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize.
His other books include
Seneca in English (Penguin
Classics), Squandermania
(Salt), and The Open Door:
100 Poems, 100 Years of
POETRY Magazine (University of Chicago Press), a
sequel to which will appear
in 2017. He received a
VIDA Award in 2015 for his
“contributions to American literature and literary
community.”
Eleanor
Hooker’s
second poetry
collection A
Tug of Blue
(Dedalus
Press) will
be published October
2016. Her first collection
The Shadow Owner’s
Companion (Dedalus
Press) was shortlisted for
the Strong/Shine award
for best first Irish poetry
collection, 2012. She was
awarded 1st Prize in the
2016 Bare Fiction Flash
Fiction prize. She curates
Dromineer Literary Festival
and is helm at Lough Derg
RNLI lifeboat.
Geraldine
Mitchell was
born in Dublin
and now lives
on the Co.
Mayo coast.
She won the
Patrick Kavanagh Poetry
Award in 2008 and has
since published two
collections: World Without
Maps (Arlen House, 2011)
and Of Birds and Bones
(Arlen House, 2014).Other
publications include two
novels for young people
and biography.
Kathy D’Arcy
is a Cork poet
with collections, Encounter (Lapwing)
2010, and
The Wild
Pupil (Bradshaw), 2012.
She is a recipient of an
Arts Council Literature
Bursary 2013, and in
2014 received an Irish
Research Council Award
to undertake a PhD in
Creative Writing at UCC.
Having originally qualified
and worked as a doctor,
D’Arcy is also a playwright
and 2016 editor of the
Cork Literary Review.
Marita Conlon-McKenna
is an award
winning Irish
writer of adult
and children’s
fiction.
Rebel Sisters (Transworld
Publishers Ltd, 2016)
is her best-selling Irish
novel about The Easter
1916 Rising. Her other
novels include The
Stone House, The Rose
Garden and Three Women.
Her novel The Magdalen
tells the story of Ireland’s
forgotten women of the
Magdalen homes and
laundries.
Mark Fiddes’
controversial
debut The
Chelsea
Flower Show
Massacre was
published last
year by Templar as winner
of their Iota Shots competition. Winner of last year’s
Dromineer Poetry Prize, he
was also runner-up in the
2015 Bridport Prize. A full
collection The Rainbow
Factory comes out later
this year.
Órfhlaith
Foyle is a novelist and poet.
Her second
short story
collection,
Clemency
Browne Dreams of Gin
(Arlen House, 2014), was
chosen as a book of the
year by The Irish Times.
Her first full poetry collection Red Riding Hood’s
Dilemma (Arlen House,
2011) was short-listed
for the Rupert and Eithne
Strong Award for Best
First Irish Collection. Foyle
was born in Africa and now
lives in Galway.
Rick O’Shea
is the
presenter of
RTÉ Radio 1’s
Poetry Programme. He’s
hosted public
interviews with, amongst
others, Chris Cleave,
Jessie Burton, journalist
Johann Hari and Graham
Norton. He conducted this
year’s Bloomsday Interview with Ayelet Waldman
and Michael Chabon. In
2015 he co-presented
the Irish Book Awards on
RTÉ One.
Robert Peake
is an American-born poet
living near
London. He
created the Transatlantic
Poetry series, bringing poets together for live online
readings and conversations.
His film-poems have been
widely screened in the US
and Europe. His collection
The Knowledge is available
from Nine Arches Press.
Robert Ryan
lives and works
in Lough Gur,
Co. Limerick;
a source of
inspiration for
his evocative,
other-worldly paintings.
Ryan graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design
in 1987. He shows at the
Royal Hibernian Academy
and Royal Ulster Academy
annual exhibitions. His overseas exhibitions include:
Slovenia, France, Denmark,
Australia, China, UK and USA.
Dave Redmond has
played with Yurodny and in
the small jazz combos of
pianist Phil Ware, drummer
Kevin Brady and veteran
guitarists Tommy Hafferty
and Louis Stewart. He
has also played with Van
Morrison. Dick Farrelly is an
accomplished guitarist,
and has worked with
leading artists including:
Van Morrison, Mick Taylor
of the Rolling Stones,
Mary Coughlan, and Honor
Heffernan. He has also
performed with singer
Mary Ryan in IMRAM’s
blues project. Graham Hopkins played
drums with Glen Hansard,
the Oscar-winning Swell
Season, Square Pegs,
and The Frames, amongst
Caitríona O’Leary is known others. He has toured
and recorded with artists
internationally for her
including: Snow Patrol,
passionate performances
Therapy? and Dolores
of Traditional Irish song,
O’Riordan. Folk and Early Music. She
has recorded seventeen
critically acclaimed albums Nick Roth is a saxophonist, composer
with her band Dúlra, and
and educator. He has
the celebrated early music
ensembles, Sequentia, The collaborated with Iarla Ó
Lionáird, Bobby McFerrin,
Harp Consort, Joglaresa
The Crash Ensemble and
and eX (the Irish-based
others. He is the artistic
ensemble she founded in
director of the Yurodny
2006). She has performed
Ensemble, which performs
in venues including: The
contemporary interpretaRoyal Albert Hall, Lincoln
Center, Radio City Music Hall tions of traditional music
from around the world
and Cité de la Musique.
alongside new works by
composers inspired by
these traditions.
IMRAM – Joni Mitchell
Project,
Band Members
DÉARDAOIN, 6 DEIREADH
FÓMHAIR / THURSDAY
OCTOBER 6
FRIDAY OCTOBER 7
Secondary Schools
Transition Year Workshops
SATURDAY OCTOBER 8
Masterclass Poetry
Workshop
IMRAM Irish Language
Literature Festival
presents
Íde na Tine – Tionscadal
Joni Mitchell Sweet Fire –
The Joni Mitchell Project
Caitríona O’Leary & band
with Kathy D’Arcy
With Don Share
8pm – 10pm St. Mary’s Church of
Ireland, Church Rd. Nenagh
Cead isteach/Entry: €12.00/€10.00
Áirithintí/Bookings: info@
dromineerliteraryfestival.ie
Tel: 086 4401613
Web: www.dromineerliteraryfestival.ie
The Joni Mitchell Project features the
very best of Mitchell’s songs superbly
translated into Irish by Liam Ó Muirthile
and Gabriel Rosenstock, performed
by singer Caitríona O’Leary with
accompaniment by musicians Dick
Farrelly, Nick Roth, Dave Redmond and
Graham Hopkins. Margaret Lonergan has
created stunning screen projections of
the lyrics.
Duine de na cumadóirí amhrán is mó
a bhí riamh ann í Joni Mitchell dar le
Rolling Stone. Sna liricí sárfhileata aici,
pléitear téamaí an ghrá – an tnúth, an
cumha, an ríméad, an domlas – chomh
maith le ceisteanna móra sóisialta agus
timpeallachta.
Joni Mitchell has been described by
Rolling Stone as ‘one of the greatest
songwriters ever’. Her intensely poetic
lyrics probe romantic themes of longing,
joy and disillusion, as well as social and
environmental concerns.
Pre-booked group
9.00am – 3.00pm, Lough Derg Yacht Club
Poet, editor and playwright, Kathy
D’Arcy is an experienced creative
writing workshop facilitator and will
introduce our young writers to fresh
approaches in their work. She is
2016 editor of Rhyme Rag, an online
poetry journal for young people.
Dromineer Literary
Festival Poetry Evening
with Colette Bryce, Don
Share, Robert Peake
and chaired by Aideen Henry
8.00pm – 10.00pm
Dún Mhuire, 50 Pearse St. Nenagh
Entry: €12.00/€10.00
Bookings: info@
dromineerliteraryfestival.ie
Tel: 086 4401613
Web: www.dromineerliteraryfestival.ie
We are delighted to have internationally
acclaimed poets Colette Bryce, Don Share
and Robert Peake reading at the festival
this year. The event will be chaired by
poet and short story writer, Aideen Henry.
Clodagh Beresford Dunne, 2016
recipient of an Arts Council of Ireland
Emerging Writer Award Bursary, will
read three poems to begin the evening.
Writing the short
story, a workshop
With Danielle McLaughlin
9.30am - 12.30pm, Lough
Derg Yacht Club.
9.30am - 12.30pm, Lough Derg Yacht Club.
€35 Fee includes delicious
€35 Fee includes delicious
home-made lunch.
home-made lunch.
NB Booking is essential
NB Booking is essential.
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
Maximum participants, 10.
Maximum participants, 10. Each should
bring 11 copies of one poem,
maximum 40 lines.
We are excited to have Don Share host a
masterclass poetry workshop. A gifted
poet and experienced editor with an
encyclopaedic knowledge of poetry.
Competition Results,
Judge’s Citations
& Readings
2.30 - 3.30pm, Lough Derg
Yacht Club, Free Entry
Poetry Judge
Flash Fiction Judge Glavin
Schools Poetry Judge
Mitchell – Theme Play
Colette Bryce
Anthony
Geraldine
Launching Party
With poets Catherine Ann Cullen, Mark Fiddes, Eleanor Hooker
and introduced by Don Share
4.00pm - 5.30pm, Lough Derg
Yacht Club, Entry €5
In keeping with our philosophy of
introducing new writers, we are delighted
that these three poets will read from their
new books, published this year. We are
pleased indeed that Don Share, who has
read their books in advance of the festival,
will introduce their readings.
Danielle McLaughlin’s is an experienced
creative writing teacher and talented
writer whose stories have appeared
in The New Yorker. Danielle is past
winner of the Flash Fiction Prize at
the Dromineer Literary Festival.
Meet the Authors
With Anne Enright, Anthony
Glavin, Aideen Henry
and chaired by Rick O’Shea.
8.00pm - 10.00pm
NOTE VENUE:St. Mary’s Church
of Ireland, Church Rd. Nenagh
Entry: €12.00/€10.00
Bookings:
[email protected]
Tel: 086 440 1613
Web: www.dromineerliteraryfestival.ie
This promises to be an outstanding
evening with discussions and readings
from three exceptional writers, and
promoting new as well as established
writers on the same stage.
FRIDAY 6 to
SUNDAY OCTOBER 9
Forgotten Time an
exhibition by Robert Ryan
Lough Derg Yacht Club & Nenagh Arts
Centre. From Thursday to Sunday. Free
Entry
Lough Gur is a source of inspiration for
Ryan’s evocative, haunting, other-worldly
paintings, which are unique in the Irish
contemporary arts scene.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 9
Sunday Afternoon
Afloat
with Danielle McLaughlin
and Órfhlaith Foyle
12.00pm - 2.00pm
On board The Spirit of Killaloe
Entry: €12.00/€10.00
NOTE: Places Strictly Limited,
Pre-Booking is Essential
Email: [email protected]
At our event afloat, award winning
short story writers Danielle McLaughlin
and Órfhlaith Foyle select their
favourite short story by the other
and provide a readerly and writerly
critique for the audience. Both
authors will read their story.
Rebel Sisters: a
discussion with Marita
Conlon McKenna about
her powerful novel,
set in Ireland during
the 1916 Rising
With Marita Conlon-McKenna
Chaired by committee member
Margaret Kennedy
Music provided by Harpist Laura Hogan
4.00pm - 5.00pm
Nenagh Castle, 24 Pearse St,
Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
Entry €10
Bookings: info@
dromineerliteraryfestival.ie
Tel: 086 4401613- NOTE – Dress
*Warmly* No wheelchair access
Rebel Sisters, Marita Conlon McKenna’s
powerful new novel, is set in Ireland
during the 1916 Rising and is based
on the real life Gifford sisters – Muriel,
Grace, and Nellie – three young women
at the very heart of the Rising.
Muriel married writer Thomas
MacDonagh, Grace married Joseph
Plunkett, hours before his execution,
and Nellie fought alongside
Countess Constance Markievicz
in the College of Surgeons.