Waterford Libraries are delighted to welcome bestselling author Andrea Mara to Central Library on Saturday 7th September at 3:00pm.
This continues our Writers at Waterford Libraries series.
Andrea Mara is a Number One Irish Times, Top Ten Sunday Times, and Number One Kindle bestselling author, who has been shortlisted for a number of awards, including Irish Crime Novel of the Year at the An Post Book Awards in 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2018.
Her most recent book, No One Saw A Thing, was a Number One bestseller in Ireland and Number One bestseller on Kindle, and has sold over 100,000 copies, spending five months in the Irish Top Ten. Her novel All Her Fault was Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, a top ten bestseller in the UK and Ireland, and a Kindle Top 5 bestseller. It has been optioned for TV.
Hide And Seek charted in the Irish Times bestseller list for five weeks and was shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year in 2022.
This is a Free Event, but Booking is Required. Please contact Central Library on 051 849975 for bookings and further information.
This event is part of the Writers at Waterford Libraries programme of events for 2024. The series of writer events aims to unite readers and writers through free, accessible events in their local library branches.
Waterford Libraries are delighted to welcome award winning author and current Laureate for Irish Fiction, Colm Tóibín to Dungarvan Library on Thursday 13th June at 7:00pm.
Colm Tóibín, internationally acclaimed Irish author and current Laureate for Irish Fiction has released a new book ‘Long Island’ and will be in conversation with Mary Conway, Acting City and County Librarian, at Dungarvan Library on June 13th at 7pm.
While this is a free event, booking is required. Please contact Dungarvan Library for bookings and further information on 058 21141.
‘Long Island’ is the much-anticipated sequel to Tóibín’s 2009 novel ‘Brooklyn’ which was also adapted into a film in 2015. In ‘Long Island’ we see Eilis and Tony living a happy, secure life in Long Island 20 years on from the ending of ‘Brooklyn’. When a stranger with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis’s door however, she turns towards Ireland once again and the life she left behind. In his follow on to the best-selling and prizewinning novel ‘Brooklyn’ we see Tóibín at his best, a master of deeply moving scenes full of quiet restraint.
The author of eleven novels, including ‘The Magician’, ‘The Master’, ‘Nora Webster’ and ‘Brooklyn’ Colm Tóibín has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, was winner of the International Dublin Literary award for ‘The Master’ and has won both the Costa Novel award and the Impac Award. He has published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. Tóibín is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Acting City and County Librarian Mary Conway is looking forward to the evening stating ‘I am delighted to welcome Com Tóibín to Waterford and to Dungarvan Library and look forward to discussing his wonderful writing with him. It is sure to be an insightful conversation.’
Tóibín will also discuss his inspirations including Henry James, his creative processes and the machinations of writing. As the current Laureate for Irish Fiction Tóibín will also speak about Irish writers and the new generation of writers representing Ireland.
This event is not to be missed and is sure to be memorable evening.
This event is part of the Writers at Waterford Libraries programme of events for 2024. The series of writer events aims to unite readers and writers through free, accessible events in their local library branches.
Waterford Libraries are delighted to welcome award winning author Elaine Feeney to Ardkeen Library on Saturday 11th May at 3:00pm.
This continues our Writers at Waterford Libraries series.
Elaine Feeney writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She has published three poetry collections including The Radio was Gospel and Rise. Her debut novel As You Were won Dalkey Book Festival’s Emerging Writer Prize, The Kate O’ Brien Prize, Society of Authors’ McKitterick Prize, and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and the Rathbones-Folio Prize. Feeney’s short fiction was published in The Art of The Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories and she has published widely including The Paris Review, The Stinging Fly, The Moth, Poetry Review and The Guardian. Her second novel How to Build a Boat was published in 2023 and was nominated for The Booker Prize. A new collection, All the Good Things You Deserve is forthcoming in 2024. She lectures at University of Galway.
This is a Free event, but booking is required. Please contact Ardkeen Library on 051 849755 for bookings and further information.
This event is part of the Writers at Waterford Libraries programme of events for 2024. The series of writer events aims to unite readers and writers through free, accessible events in their local library branches.
Award winning Irish Language Poet to speak At Dungarvan Library for Poetry Day Ireland
Waterford Libraries in partnership with Dún Garbhán Le Gaeilge are delighted to welcome
prestigious Irish language poet Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh to Dungarvan Library for an event on
Poetry Day Ireland on 25 th April.
Ailbhe will read from her work and be interviewed on the night by Bróna Coleman from Dún
Garbnán Le Gaeilge and is part of the Writers at Waterford Libraries programme of events
for 2024. A grant from Dún Garbhán Le Gaeilge has enables this high-quality Irish language
author event to take place.
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh was born in Kerry. She has read at festivals in New York, Paris,
Montréal, Berlin and Ballyferriter.
In 2012 her poem ‘Deireadh na Feide’ won the O’Neill Poetry Prize. ‘Filleadh ar an gCathair’
was chosen as Ireland’s EU Presidency poem in 2013 and was shortlisted in 2015 for RTE’s ‘A
Poem for Ireland’. Coiscéim published her first book Péacadh (2008) and Tost agus
Allagar (2016). The latter won the Michael Hartnett Award in 2019.
A bilingual collection, The Coast Road, was published by Gallery Press, and includes English
translations by thirteen poets. Dánta Andrée Chedid , translations from the French, was
published in 2019 by Cois Life as part of their ‘File ar Fhile’ series.
She is the 2020 recipient of the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award. A new collection, Tonn
Teaspaigh agus Dánta Eile , was published by Éabhlóid in November 2022.
The event will be in the Irish language.
This event is free of charge will be held in Dungarvan Library at 7.00 pm on 25 th of April.
Please phone 058 21141 to book your place.
File iomráiteach le labhairt i Leabharlann Dhún Garbhán do Lá Filíochta na hÉireann
Tá lúcháir ar Leabharlanna Phort Láirge, i gcomhphairtíocht le Dún Garbhán le Gaeilge, fáilte a chur roimh an bhfile mór le rá, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, chuig ócáid le haghaidh Lá Filíochta na hÉireann i Leabharlann Dhún Garbhán ar an 25ú Aibreán.
Léifidh Ailbhe óna saothar agus cuirfear fé agallamh í ag Bróna Coleman ó Dhún Garbhán le Gaeilge mar chuid den tsraith ocáide do ‘Writers at Waterford Libraries’ i 2024. Is de bharr urraíocht ó Dhún Garbhán le Gaeilge gur féidir leis an ócáid Ghaeilge seo atá ar ardcaighdeán a chur ar siúl.
Rugadh Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh i gContae Chiarraí. Tá sí tar éis léamh ag féilte i Nua Eabhrac, Páras, Montréal, Beirlín agus Baile an Fheirtéaraigh.
I 2012, bhuaigh a dán ‘Deireadh na Feide’ an gradam fílíochta, ‘O’ Neill Poetry Prize’. Roghnaíodh ‘Filleadh ar an gCathair’ mar an Dán Uachtaránacht na hÉireann ar an AE i 2013 agus chuireadh ar an ngearrliosta é i 2015 don ‘ Poem for Ireland’.
Fuair Ailbhe an gradam Lawrence O’ Shaughnessy i 2020. D’fhoilsíodh a cnuasach nua, Teaspaigh agus Dánta Eile, ag Éabhlóid i Mí na Samhna 2022.
Réachtálfar an ócáid seo as Gaeilge.
Beidh an ócáid seo saor in aisce i Leabharlann Dhún Garbhán 7:00in ar an 25ú Aibreán. Chur glaoch ar 058 21141 chun do spás a chur in áirithint.
Waterford Libraries are delighted to welcome Internationally renowned and much loved Irish singer, performer and author, Sandy Kelly, to Dungarvan Library on Saturday 23rd March at 3:00pm.
Much loved Irish artist, Sandy Kelly was always going to be a singer and performer. Born into her grandfather, Dusky Dan’s Variety Roadshow, her destiny was sealed from her first stage appearance at the age of three, laying the foundations for a lifelong career in music. She was co-opted into the family travelling fit-up variety show in Ireland and later as a teenager the social club circuit in the U.K. playing an ever more prominent role until she returned to Ireland and developed initially as pop performer before following her instincts and concentrating on a country music career.
Sandy’s first record,‘ Come Back Billy Joe’ reached number two in the Irish pop charts and her career was on track. She represented Ireland at the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest, as lead
singer in The Duskeys. She has achieved multiple Gold Records, including hit duet ‘Woodcarver’ with Johnny Cash and her version of Willie Nelson’s ‘Crazy’, one of the biggest selling singles in Ireland in 1989. For three years, she hosted her own weekly RTE TV Series ‘Sandy’.
Her connection to Patsy Cline’s songs led to Sandy being cast as the lead in the West End production of ‘Patsy – The Musical’ in London in the 90’s. Following the West End run, the show successfully toured the UK and Ireland for the second half of the decade.
While on an Irish tour, Johnny Cash heard Sandy on the radio, asked her to join him on stage and invited her to Nashville, where his introductions integrated her into the upper realms of
the Nashville scene. Sandy subsequently recorded and toured with a host of legendary U.S. country artists including Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Glen Campbell, Tammy Wynette, George Hamilton IV and Chet Atkins. Her friendship with Johnny Cash and his family endured right to his sad demise in 2003.
Following a thirty – year hiatus from the recording studio, in October 2023 Sandy released a long awaited new album in tandem with her self – penned life story, ‘In My Own Words’, published by O’Brien Press. The autobiography covers the ups and downs of the singer’s life in her own endearingly honest voice.
The album, ‘Leaving It All Behind’, was recorded at what was Johnny Cash’s personal studio ‘Cash Cabin’ in Nashville and produced by five time Grammy Award winning producer, John Carter Cash, alongside Sandy’s son, Willie and an A-list Nashville session band. Twelve tracks, traversing the lines of classic country and contemporary folk, including re-cut acoustic versions of Sandy’s duets with Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, ‘Woodcarver’ and ‘Against The Wind’, the latter featuring Marty Stuart as a guest musician. As well as a duet with Mike Hanrahan of Stockton’s Wing. ‘Leaving It All Behind’ is a legacy album which will confirm Sandy’s position at the apex of the European country music ladder.
This is a Free event, but booking is required. Please contact Dungarvan Library on 058 21141 for bookings and information.
This event is part of the Writers at Waterford Libraries programme of events for 2024. The series of writer events aims to unite readers and writers through free, accessible events in their local library branches.
Waterford Libraries are delighted to welcome author Catherine Kirwan to Lismore Library on Tuesday 27th February at 3:00pm for “Murder, Intrigue & Afternoon Tea”!
This continues our Writers at Waterford Libraries series.
Catherine grew up on a farm in the parish of Fews, County Waterford. She studied law at UCC and lives in Cork where she works as a solicitor. Her first novel, “Darkest Truth”, was chosen as Cork’s One City One Book by Cork City Libraries in 2019. Her second book, “Cruel Deeds”, and her third, “A Lesson in Malice”, a murder mystery set in UCC, are both out now.
This is a Free event, but booking is required. Please contact Lismore library on 058-21377 for bookings and further information.
Waterford Libraries are delighted to welcome Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen, co-authors of the best selling and multi award wining Aisling series, to Carrickphierish Library on Thursday 15th February at 7:00pm.
Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling was the best-selling fiction title of 2017 and its sequel, The Importance of Being Aisling, won the award for best popular fiction book at the 2018 Irish Book Awards. The third book in the series, Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling, won the same award the following year and the fourth book in the series, Aisling and City, won again in 2021. The final book in the five-part Aisling series, Aisling Ever After, was published in Autumn 2023 and was a number one bestseller. Combined, the Aisling books have sold over 400,000 copies to date.
Emer McLysaght has worked extensively in journalism and radio and is a columnist at The Irish Times. She knows the N7 like the back of her hand and lives in Dublin 8.
Sarah Breen’s background is in print journalism, specifically magazines. She is a columnist at The Sunday Times. She lives in Dublin 7 and dreams of the day Oasis will reunite.
This is a Free event, but booking is required. Please contact Carrickphierish Library on 051 849696 for bookings and information.
This event is part of the Writers at Waterford Libraries programme of events for 2024. The series of writer events aims to unite readers and writers through free, accessible events in their local library branches.
Waterford Libraries welcomes The Art of Reading Book Club with Laureate for Irish Fiction, Colm Tóibín and author Claire Kilroy on Wednesday 17th January at 7:00pm.
The Art of Reading Book Club is an initiative of the Arts Council and the Laureate for Irish Fiction, in partnership with Libraries Ireland.
Online Event – Wednesday 17th January, 7:00pm
Free Event for Book Clubs – Booking required
For further information please contact 058 21141.
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