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Join broadcaster Rick O’Shea in conversation with authors Elaine Feeney and Paul Murray.
Nominated for An Post Irish Book Awards – Book of the Year, How to Build a Boat is the beautiful novel about a young boy whose mission transforms the lives of his teachers and brings together a community. Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards – Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Nero Prize, The Bee Sting explores the failures and vulnerability of the Barnes family and the consequences of a single moment that can change
the direction of life.
Elaine Feeney is a writer from the west of Ireland. Her 2020 debut novel, As You Were, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and won the Kate O'Brien Award, the McKitterick Prize, and the Dalkey Festival Emerging Writer Award. Feeney has published three collections of poetry including The Radio Was Gospel and Rise, and her short story ‘Sojourn’ was included in The Art of The Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories, edited by Sinéad Gleeson. Feeney lectures at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Paul Murray is the author of An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Skippy Dies and The Mark and the Void. An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and nominated for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies was shortlisted for the Costa Novel award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize.
The Mark and the Void won the Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2016. He lives in Dublin.
Rick O’Shea is a broadcaster with RTE, currently weekdays on RTE Gold. He was previously a presenter on RTE2FM and of The Book Show on RTE Radio 1. He runs Ireland’s largest book club - The Rick O’Shea Book Club on Facebook, hosts and curates public author interviews at festivals, and chooses the Eason Must Reads lists 4 times a year. He is a member of the An Post Irish Book Awards voting academy. Currently, Rick is literary curator for the annual UCD Festival and a board member of Fighting Words NI in Belfast. He’s a former judge of the Costa Book Awards and Dalkey Literary Awards, and a previous curator of the Waterford Writers Weekend.

The benefits of the natural world for our mental and physical wellbeing have long been recognised, but perhaps never more so than in the last few years. Writer, journalist and author of This is My Sea, Miriam Mulcahy, is joined in conversation by two nature experts as they explore how our desire to reconnect with nature has resulted in a surge in popularity of activities in the outdoors, as well as a drive towards sustainability and a commitment to
‘leave no trace.’ Wild Derrynane: A Wildlife Year Explorer’s Guide, Stories and Memoir by wildlife film maker, naturalist and outdoor educationalist Vincent Hyland is a visual natural history of the Skellig Coast, and an invaluable record of the area’s changing biodiversity. The forthcoming The Complete Book of Wild Swimming in Ireland by Maureen McCoy, complete with spectacular photos by Paul McCambridge, is a comprehensive guide to discovering dramatic and lesser known locations around Ireland for swimming, diving and snorkelling. Maureen McCoy, from Hillsborough, County Down, is an award-winning open-water swimmer, having swum in the sea, loughs and rock pools with her brothers since she was a small child. In 2009, just after her fortieth birthday, she fulfilled her childhood ambition to swim the English Channel. Maureen enjoys outdoor swimming throughout the year and always keeps a swimsuit in her car - just in case.
Miriam Mulcahy is a writer and journalist living in Kildare. She contributes to the Irish Times, writing for the property section every week, and last year curated the Surrealist Gallery at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Visual Arts. This is My Sea, published by Eriu/Bonnier in August 2023 was an Irish no 1 bestseller, was nominated for an An Post Irish Book Award and was one
of the Irish Times books of the year for 2023. This is My Sea comes out in paperback this May. Vincent Hyland is a multi-award-winning underwater filmmaker, publisher and digital broadcaster. He was an early adopter of digital technology, establishing Ireland's first digital design bureau in the mid-1980s. He spent ten years working in technology at Microsoft. He
established and published Ireland's first Wildlife magazine "Wild Ireland", has filmed the underwater marine life of Galapagos and Antarctica and worked for the BBC's Natural History Unit. He has appeared on BBC, RTE, TV3 and TG4 television including directing and narrating the recent series "Call of the Wild" for RTE One television. His practice combines music, art
and outdoor education. His recent discoveries include night-time fluorescence in underwater temperate marine life. He has just published his life's work "Wild Derrynane" - a Visual Natural History of the Greater Skellig Coast. He is nominated in the 'Eco Individual of the Year' category in the Outsider.ie annual awards that will take place in February 2024. He lives with his partner Mo and son, Neil in Caherdaniel, Co. Kerry.

Alice Kinsella and Easkey Britton in conversation with Kerri ní Dochartaigh on climate emergency, care-giving and the sea as the original mother.

Reincarnated as the mistress of macabre, the grande dame of the dark, Ireland’s beloved newsreader delights in presenting her fabulously frightful anthology of Irish ghost stories, which have excited, unnerved and, for better or worse, stayed with her over the years.

Readers’ Day in The Studio Theatre, dlr LexIcon, Saturday 25 November
Programmed by writer Martina Devlin on behalf of dlr Libraries, it features a sparkling range of writers and thinkers.

Readers’ Day in The Studio Theatre, dlr LexIcon, Saturday 25 November
Programmed by writer Martina Devlin on behalf of dlr Libraries, it features a sparkling range of writers and thinkers.