LITERATURE EVENTS
TINA PISCO
Friday 30th September / 5.30pm / Warren & Allen / Free
Tina Pisco has worked as a professional writer for over twenty-five years. Her works include the novels Only a Paper Moon and Catch the Magpie. Her latest book, Sunrise Sunset has just been launched.
BRIAN O' DRISCOLL
Saturday 1st October / 12:30 pm / Bandon Library / Free
"I am a writer of modern and story-boarded poetry, which will always look to grab the reader and embed their imagination in my work...."
MAURICE O' CALLAGHAN
Saturday 1st October / 5pm / Bandon Books Plus / Free
Skibbereen is Maurice's fourth novel. From one tiny spot in Cork the whole atrocity of the famine's hunger and injustice unfolds and resounds to the present day, in a tragedy of biblical power and reach.
SARA BAUME
Sunday October 2nd / 7pm / The Town Hall / €12 *
Sara won the 2014 Davy Byrne's Short Story award and in 2015, the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, the Rooney Prize for Literature and an Irish Book Award for Best Newcomer.
Her debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award.
BERNARD O' DONOGHUE
Sunday October 2nd / 7pm / The Town Hall / €12 *
Bernard O’Donoghue (born 1945) is an internationally acclaimed contemporary Irish poet and academic. His work has won prizes including the Whitbread Poetry Award, and the Cholmondeley Award, as well as being shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
* Joint event
Bandon Writing Group
Saturday October 1st / 2.30pm / Bandon Library / Free
The Bandon Writing Group of creative writers meet on a monthly basis in the local library in Bandon. Since April of this year they have come under the guidance of author and Cork County Libraries’ 2016 Writer-in-Residence, Billy O’Callaghan.