The festival, formerly known as The Kate O’Brien Weekend celebrates its 40th anniversary. Novelist Dan Mooney will launch the programme for The Limerick Literary Festival on...
Dr. Jana Fischerova is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Czech and European Studies in Trinity College Dublin, as well as a lecturer in Irish and English Literature...
Festival guest Valerie Dolan in conversation with Nigel Dougdale Presented by Limerick Literary Festival in Honour of Kate O’Brien
Claire Keegan’s works of fiction are internationally acclaimed and are translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields...
Dorothy Cross was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1956. Her work ranges from object to opera: working with sculpture, photography and video. She examines the relationship...
Elaine Feeney writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She has published three poetry collections including The Radio was Gospel & Rise. Her debut novel As You Were...
William Sieghart has spent most of his adult life promoting poetry and it’s powers. He founded the Forward Prizes for Poetry, the UK’s biggest poetry prizes,...
Antoine Laurain is a novelist, screenwriter, journalist, director and collector of antique keys. A truly born and bred Parisian, after studying film, he began his career...
Francis Spufford was born in 1964, the child of two historians, he was a writer of famously unpredictable non-fiction before, with ‘Golden Hill’ in 2016, he...
Mary Morrissy is an award-winning Irish novelist (The Hennessy Award, Lannan Foundation Award) and short story writer, the author of four novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender,...
Jane Clarke is the author of three poetry collections, The River (2015), When the Tree Falls (2019) and A Change in the Air (2023) published by...
Barney Sheehan celebrating the 300th week of the Poetry Corner. Limerick mourns the loss of Legend Barney Sheehan By ilovelimerick correspondent Zoe Conway There are many...
Tall Tales from Limerick City by Hugh McMahon was launched in November. It is a collection of 122 illustrated stories of folklore, history and humour from...