FRIDAY 2ND OCTOBER
ECHOES - Maeve Binchy Literary Festival
Happiness Then…
Friday 2nd October, 7.30pm
€34.95 (plus booking fees).
Elizabeth Moynihan’s Happiness Then… exploring family, identity and belonging. Two estranged sisters meet after their mother’s death to search for connection and forgiveness. Directed by Liam Halligan, starring Sorcha Furlong and Rachel Dowling.
Post-show discussion with Elizabeth Moynihan and Professor Ian Robertson.
SATURDAY 3RD OCTOBER
ECHOES - Maeve Binchy Literary Festival
Full Day: Saturday 3rd Oct, 9.30am - 5.30pm
€75.00 (plus booking fee)
Tribute to Gordon Snell
(1932-2026) by Dominic Dromgoole.
Echoes of the past; writing inspired or drawn from life.
Dermot Bolger, Julia Kelly, Catriona Lally in conversation with Neil Hegarty.
Putting the women into women’s fiction!
Faith Hogan, Vicki Notaro, Sinead Crowley in conversation with Caroline Erskine.
Best-selling author John Boyne in conversation with Ryan Tubridy about his career and new novel The Weight of Angels, which imagines the life Oscar Wilde never had.
LUNCH
Reading from Gordon Snell’s The King of Quizzical Island.
Pulling the thread; three writers taking inspiration from history.
Martina Devlin, Rory Carroll, Doireann Ní Ghriofa in conversation with Professor Margaret Kelleher.
Celebrating the short story in Ireland. Sarah Binchy, Chris Morash, John O’Donnell in conversation with Niall MacMonagle.
Acclaimed Scottish television presenter, journalist and author Lorraine Kelly in conversation with Miriam O’Callaghan.
Featuring entertaining readings from Maeve's work by Lise-Ann McLaughlin.
ECHOES - Maeve Binchy Literary Festival
Morning: Saturday 3rd Oct, 9.30am - 12.45pm
€45.00 (plus booking fee)
Tribute to Gordon Snell
(1932-2026) by Dominic Dromgoole.
Echoes of the past; writing inspired or drawn from life.
Dermot Bolger, Julia Kelly, Catriona Lally in conversation with Neil Hegarty.
Putting the women into women’s fiction!
Faith Hogan, Vicki Notaro, Sinead Crowley in conversation with Caroline Erskine.
Best-selling author John Boyne in conversation with Ryan Tubridy about his career and new novel The Weight of Angels, which imagines the life Oscar Wilde never had.
ECHOES - Maeve Binchy Literary Festival
Afternoon: Saturday 3rd Oct, 2.00pm - 5.30pm
€45.00 (plus booking fee)
Reading from Gordon Snell’s The King of Quizzical Island.
Pulling the thread; three writers taking inspiration from history.
Martina Devlin, Rory Carroll, Doireann Ní Ghriofa in conversation with Professor Margaret Kelleher.
Celebrating the short story in Ireland. Sarah Binchy, Chris Morash, John O’Donnell in conversation with Niall MacMonagle.
Acclaimed Scottish television presenter, journalist and author Lorraine Kelly in conversation with Miriam O’Callaghan.
Featuring entertaining readings from Maeve's work by Lise-Ann McLaughlin.
SUNDAY 4TH OCTOBER
ECHOES - Maeve Binchy Literary Festival
Flat in Ringsend by Maeve Binchy
Sun 4th October, 3.00pm
€34.95 (plus booking fee)
Rehearsed Reading of Maeve Binchy’s Flat in Ringsend, adapted and directed by Jim Culleton, Artistic Director of Fishamble: The New Play Company, from a story in Maeve’s 1982 collection Dublin 4. A young woman moves from the country to Dublin in the 1970s and experiences quite the culture shock! Post show discussion with Jim Culleton and Gillian Binchy.
