Mountshannon Arts Festival… All our Literary Events

We have a very busy literary events schedule lined up for this year. Immerse yourself in captivating words and engaging discussions...

Friday 31 May

• Phil Kenny, Spoken Word Poet 

• The Man In The Woman’s Shoes, written and performed by Mikel Murfi

• Poetry Slam with Erin Fornoff

Saturday 1 May

• Poetry Workshop with Molly Twomey

• Living History of the Inland Waterways wit Noel Murphy (also on Friday)

• Pop Up Gaeltacht with Bernadette Watson

• The Cuban Revolution in 7 Stories and 7 Songs with Michael McCaughan

• Circles Cycles Creativity with Eleanor Hooker, Molly Twomey, Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Mary McNamara, Sorcha Costello

• No One is Coming, written and performed by Sinéad O’Brien

Sunday 2 June

• Conversation and Short Fiction Workshop with writer Mia Gallagher

• The Art of Place: People and Landscape of County Clare with Tommy Hayes and Peadar King

• Historic Walk and Talk with Noel Murphy (also on Monday)

• Readings from Sofia Andrukhovych, and in conversation with Mountshannon-based writer Greg Dinner

Monday 3 June

• Overheard/ Conversations at the ‘Small Change’ Cafe - Radio Drama

• The Days of Trees (film) with Tomás Hardiman

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn