Date: Friday 5th March 2021
Time: 11.30am
Platform: Zoom*
Cost: Free
In this event for Transition Year students, Louise will talk about her latest, award-winning novel After the Silence and do one or two readings from the book.
March 2021 Events
Ask the Author with Naoise Dolan
Date: Friday 5th March 2021
Time: 6pm
Platform: YouTube
Cost: Free/Donate {loadposition donate}
Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin. She studied at Trinity College, followed by a master’s in Victorian literature at Oxford. Her writing has featured in The Dublin Review and The Stinging Fly. Naoise’s debut novel Exciting Times was published by W&N in the UK and by Ecco in the US in 2020.
Friday Night In with Colm O’Regan
Date: Friday 5th March 2021
Time: 8pm
Platform: YouTube
Cost: Free/Donate {loadposition donate}
Enjoy a night of comedy and story with Colm O’Regan as he reads from his best-selling critically acclaimed Ann Devine novels. Colm will entertain you in your homestead, dipping into the hilarious and brilliant world of Ann, the village of Kilsudgeon in which she lives and the stories that inspired it.
A Secondary School Audience with Louise O’Neill
Date: Thursday 4th March 2021
Time: 2.10pm-3.10pm
Louise O’Neill will explore and discuss the themes in her novels for teenagers, Only Ever Yours and Asking For It with senior classes in Clare Secondary Schools.
A Secondary School Audience with Louise O’Neill
Date: Thursday 4th March 2021
Time: 10am-11am
Louise O’Neill will explore and discuss the themes in her novels for teenagers, Only Ever Yours and Asking For It with senior classes in Ennistymon’s Secondary Schools.
Songwriting and Music Production Workshop with Music Generation Clare
Date: Wednesday 3rd March 2021
Time: 1.30pm-4pm
An interactive workshop for secondary schools in Ennis including writing, recording and mixing a song together as a class group.
Songwriting and Music Production Workshop with Music Generation Clare
Date: Wednesday 3rd March 2021
Time: 9.30am-12pm
An interactive workshop for secondary schools in Ennis including writing, recording and mixing a song together as a class group.
Fighting Words Creative Writing Workshop
Date: Tuesday 2nd March 2021
Time: 1.45pm-3.45pm
A creative writing workshop for Secondary Schools in Clare, in collaboration with Clare County Library’s Teen Week facilitated by the Fighting Words Team, Fighting Words volunteers from Clare and library staff.
Fighting Words Creative Writing Workshop
Date: Tuesday 2nd March 2021
Time: 10am-12 noon
A creative writing workshop for Secondary Schools in Ennistymon, in collaboration with Clare County Library’s Teen Week. Special guest Roddy Doyle will join the Fighting Words Team, Fighting Words volunteers from Clare and library staff.
Clare Reads …This is Happiness by Niall Williams
Date: Tuesday 30th March 2021
Time: 8pm
Platform: Zoom
Cost: Free/Donate {loadposition donate}
Clare County Library is delighted to announce Clare Reads…This is Happiness by Niall Williams as part of both the Ireland Reads and the Keep Well campaigns.
Roddy Doyle and Patrick Freyne
Date: Saturday 6th March 2021
Time: 8pm
Platform: YouTube
Cost: Free/Donate BOOK NOW {loadposition donate}
Roddy Doyle is the author of ten acclaimed novels, including The Commitments, The Van (a finalist for the Booker Prize), Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (winner of the Booker Prize), The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, A Star Called Henry, The Guts and Smile and most recently Love. Doyle has also written several collections of stories, as well as Two Pints, Two More Pints, and Two for the Road, and several works for children and young adults including the Rover novels.
Kevin Barry: That Old Country Music
Interview and Film Screening
Date: Saturday 6th March 2021
Time: 6pm
Platform: YouTube
Cost: Free/Donate BOOK NOW {loadposition donate}
Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and its award-winning sequel in 2012, Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as one of the world’s most accomplished and gifted short story writers.
Record Break Art Poetry
Date: Sunday 7th March 2021
Time: 7pm
Platform: Zoom
Cost: Free/Donate BOOK NOW {loadposition donate}
A collaboration of Poets and Visual Artists who join together to commemorate the Record Break Art Poetry Exposition in which twelve ekphrastic poems are on display alongside the corresponding works of visual art, and includes poetry by Mike Douse and Knute Skinner.
10 Books You Should Read with Patrick Freyne and Elaine Feeney
Introduced by Edel Coffey
Date: Sunday 7th March 2021
Time: 8pm
Platform: Clare FM and Podcast
Cost: Free/Donate {loadposition donate}
Patrick and Elaine will each choose five books that have changed or moved them and they’ll share their choices with us.
10 Books will air on Clare FM on Sunday 7th March. The full episode will also be released as a podcast afterwards, via a link that will be made available on this event page from 10am, Monday March 8th.
Bookclub Meet and Greets with Donal Ryan
Date: Saturday 6th March 2021
Time: 11:30am – 4pm (4 time slots of 30 mins each are available and can be booked for up to 10 people)
Platform: Zoom
Cost: Free/Donate BOOK NOW {loadposition donate}
Enjoy some face-time with acclaimed Irish author Donal Ryan as he welcomes your bookclub for a conversation about his most recent novel Strange Flowers. Donal will take questions from your bookclub (bookings of maximum 10 people per session), facilitated by a committee member of EBCF.