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FRIDAY 4TH OCTOBER

Friday
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ECHOES - Maeve Binchy Literary Festival 
An Unmissable Evening with Maeve

Friday 4th October, 7.30pm
€27.95 (plus booking fees).

Double Bill! Maeve Binchy’s Chancery Lane and Minding Frankie.

Chancery Lane is one of the short stories in Maeve’s early collection Victoria Line, Central Line.

It is a Rehearsed Reading of  a new stage adaptation, directed by Conall Morrison. Wanting to sue rich banker Charles Benson for breach of contract, show-stopping dancer Jilly Twilly enlists a barrister’s help... It’s Binchy at her best!

Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy.

Adapted for stage by Shay Linehan

This is a story about unconventional families, relationships which aren’t quite what they seem, and a child at home in a “daisy chain” community. Starring Michael Heavey. Directed by Margaret Dunne.

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SATURDAY 5TH OCTOBER

Saturday
ECHOES - Maeve Binchy Literary Festival
Full Day: Saturday 5th Oct, 9.30am - 5.30pm
€72.50 (plus bookin
g fee)

I do like to be beside the seaside! Journalist, author and publican of the infamous John B’s bar in Listowel, Billy Keane talks about the need to celebrate home towns, and entertaining Maeve and Gordon during Writers’ Week.

At Home in the World. Anne Griffin, Zoe Miller and Jamie O’Connell talk to Katherine McSharry about Maeve Binchy’s influence on writing in Ireland.

Crime Begins at Home. Sam Blake, Andrea Mara and Brian McGilloway tell Andrea Carter why so many crime novels start with a domestic setting.

Liz Nugent in conversation with Oliver Callan

Best-selling author Irish Liz Nugent talks to award-winning impressionist and noted Maeve Binchy fan, Oliver Callan.

LUNCH

You May Not Know This, But...  Special guest Paul Johnston, the British Ambassador to Ireland, shares his love for Maeve Binchy's writing and her outlook on life.

Feeling at Home with Writing. Melatu Uche Okorie, Kevin Curran and Olha Khoroshevska talk to Caroline Erskine about interpreting ‘home’ in contemporary Ireland.

This Must be the Place. Sarah Binchy, Jan Carson and John Patrick McHugh discuss Ireland’s international reputation for short story writing with chair Niall MacMonagle.

Cecelia Ahern in conversation with Edel Coffey

Internationally-loved author Cecelia Ahern talks to author and journalist Edel Coffey about her inspirations and catching her characters “as they fall”!

Overheard... by Colm O’Regan

Acclaimed author, comedian, and obsessive earwigger Colm O’Regan explains how ‘Maevesdropping’ creates comedy gold!

BOOKED OUT
ECHOES - Maeve Binchy Literary Festival
Morning: Saturday 5th Oct, 9.30am - 12.45pm
€40.00 (plus booking fee)

I do like to be beside the seaside! Journalist, author and publican of the infamous John B’s bar in Listowel, Billy Keane talks about the need to celebrate home towns, and entertaining Maeve and Gordon during Writers’ Week.

At Home in the World. Anne Griffin, Zoe Miller and Jamie O’Connell talk to Katherine McSharry about Maeve Binchy’s influence on writing in Ireland.

Crime Begins at Home. Sam Blake, Andrea Mara and Brian McGilloway tell Andrea Carter why so many crime novels start with a domestic setting.

Liz Nugent in conversation with Oliver Callan

Best-selling author Irish Liz Nugent talks to award-winning impressionist and noted Maeve Binchy fan, Oliver Callan.

BOOKED OUT
ECHOES - Maeve Binchy Literary Festival
Afternoon: Saturday 5th Oct, 2.00pm - 5.30pm
€40.00 (plus booking fee)

You May Not Know This, But...   Special guest Paul Johnston, the British Ambassador to Ireland, shares his love for Maeve Binchy's writing and her outlook on life.

Feeling at Home with Writing. Melatu Uche Okorie, Kevin Curran and Olha Khoroshevska talk to Caroline Erskine about interpreting ‘home’ in contemporary Ireland.

This Must be the Place. Sarah Binchy, Jan Carson and John Patrick McHugh discuss Ireland’s international reputation for short story writing with chair Niall MacMonagle.

Cecelia Ahern in conversation with Edel Coffey

Internationally-loved author Cecelia Ahern talks to author and journalist Edel Coffey about her inspirations and catching her characters “as they fall”!

Overheard... by Colm O’Regan

Acclaimed author, comedian, and obsessive earwigger Colm O’Regan explains how ‘Maevesdropping’ creates comedy gold!

BOOKED OUT

SUNDAY 6TH OCTOBER

Sunday
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ECHOES - Maeve Binchy Literary Festival
Marvellously Maeve Guided Walk    

Sun 6th October, 11.00am

€22.95 (plus booking fee)

Marvellously Maeve Guided Walk, led by Tour Guide, Rita Biggs. Eavesdrop on insider information, not in any guidebook.

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Aches and Pains by Maeve Binchy    

Sun 6th October, 3.00pm

€24.95 (plus booking fee)

Maeve Binchy’s Aches and Pains, adapted for stage by Shay Linehan, directed by Margaret Dunne. With Caitríona Ní Threasaigh as Ann and Michael Heavey as Stan. Maeve regales us with hilarious and poignant details of her hip operation

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