Limerick Literary Festival

Sun 1/03 at 2.45pm at The Belltable Gráinne O’Brien will be interviewed by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald.
Gráinne a bestselling author of A Limerick Fairytale & Solo. Solo won Best Teen & Young Adult Novel @IrishBookAward &nominated for Book of the Year.
Tickets: www.limerickliteraryfestival.com

Sun 1/03, 1.15pm at The Belltable, Desert Island books w/ Martin Doyle &Sarah Moore Fitzgerald. 4 favourites to take & 1 to never lend. Martin is book editor at The Irish Times. Author-Dirty Linen:The Troubles in My Own Place &A Hosting:Interviews with Irish Writers
www.limerickliteraryfestival.com

Sun 1st March at the Belltable Limerick at 10am the College Theatre Company will present the Kate O’Brien hour.
The Kate O’Brien Hour will feature a rehearsed reading of O’Brien’s work for stage Distinguished Villa by the College Players.
Read more &book tickets: www.limerickliteraryfestival.com

Sat 28th Feb’26 at 4.15pm at the Belltable Limerick. Veronica O’Keane professor, author &activist talks about how memory &past experience get woven into fabric of brain networks, forming filters for our understanding &interpretation of conscious present experience
www.limerickliteraryfestival.com

Sat 28th Feb 2026 at 3pm at the Belltable Limerick, Eoin MacNamee will talk about his latest work, The Bureau: A Gritty Tale of Love and Death in Northern Ireland.
Read more and book tickets: limerickliteraryfestival.com/participants...

Sat 28th Feb 2026 at the Belltable at 1.30pm Muriel Barbery will be in conversation with Marie Hackett. Muriel grew up in France. The Elegance of the Hedgehog has sold 12 million+ copies worldwide
Event in assoc. w/ @francemidwest.bsky.social
Read more &buy tickets: www.limerickliteraryfestival.com

Sat 28th Feb at Belltable at 11.30am David Park will be speaking about his new novel Ghost Wedding.
He is the author of 11 novels, 2 collections of short stories & a novella.  Read more and book tickets: www.limerickliteraryfestival.com

To celebrate the life &legacy of the distinguished Limerick author Maeve Kelly (died Aug 25) Jo Slade &Vivienne McKechnie, poets &friends will present an evocation of her life &work w/music & readings from her short stories, novels &poetry.
Info & tickets limerickliteraryfestival.com

7pm, 27/2 at the Belltable. A free evening of words &music: Laureate for fiction Éilís Ní Dhuibhne talks w/ Sarah Gilmartin &music by harpist Elisabeth Affolter.
Elisabeth came to Ire to teach the Irish Harp in 2010 after 30yrs touring with a Breton band
Read more: www.limerickliteraryfestival.com

7pm, 27/2 @BelltableLimk
A free evening of words & music: @LaureateFiction Éilís Ní Dhuibhne talks w/ Sarah Gilmartin &music by harpist Elisabeth Affolter
@sarahgilmartin best selling author Dinner party & Service. DCU Writer in residence 2025. Read more limerickliteraryfestival.com

7pm, 27/2 at the Belltable a free evening of words & music: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne in talks w/ Sarah Gilmartin &music by harpist Elisabeth Affolter.
Éilís is the author of 30+ books. She is the 4th Laureate for Irish Fiction until 2028. www.limerickliteraryfestival.com

Friday 27th Feb at 1.30pm in No. 2 Pery Sq Limerick, Gustav Parker Hibbett will be in conversation with Niall MacMonagle.
Free event
Read more: limerickliteraryfestival.com/participants...

Together with @aflimerick.bsky.social we are organising a film evening on Thurs 26/02 at 8pm at 101 O’Connell st. Free event
The Hedgehog (2009) a French film based on the novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.
Book tickets: www.limerickliteraryfestival.com

Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien is delighted to announce 2026 Kate O’Brien Award Shortlist.
Water in the Desert Fire in the Night-Gethan Dick
Assembling Ailish-Sharon Guard
The Wardrobe Department-Elaine Garvey
Ordinary Saints-Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin

Thank you very much to Stephen O’Mahony and O’Mahony’s Booksellers for hosting The 42nd Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien.

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Thanks for coming to the launch of the 42nd Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien. A great enthusiastic audience browsing books, chatting & enjoying our speakers. The festival runs 27th Feb to 1st March 2026. Our programme & book tickets: limerickliteraryfestival.com

Councillor Maria Donoghue who has a wonderful love of books and reading launched the programme for The 42nd Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien last night in O’Mahony’s Booksellers. Thank you for launching the festival and for your beautiful words.

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We look forward to seeing you all this evening at the launch of our festival program in O’Mahony’s bookshop, Limerick. Councillor Maria Donoghue will launch the programme for The 42nd Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien.

Councillor Maria Donoghue will launch the programme for The Limerick Literary Festival on Monday January 12th at  5.30pm in O'Mahony's Bookshop,O’Connell Street, Limerick.
The Festival will run in Limerick February 27th, 28th and March 1st at the Belltable, O’Connell Street.

Happy New Year from The Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien.
The 42nd Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien will run from the 27th of February to the 1st of March 2026 at the Belltable, O’Connell St, Limerick. Full programme announced soon

Our beautiful new artwork for The Limerick Literary Festival in Honour of Kate O’Brien 27.2 - 1.3.26
Save the date, tickets on sale soon
Check out www.limerickliteraryfestival.com for more info.

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We delighted to announce the prize fund for The Kate O’Brien Award, presented to the best debut novel/short story collection by an Irish female writer is now €5000&kindly sponsored by Bill & Denise Whelan. The winner will be announced at the festival on 01/03/26 www.limerickliteraryfestival.com

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Maeve Kelly: novelist, poet, writer & activist. She co-founded ADAPT House.
Maeve will be remembered as a gifted writer but also for her kindness, conviction & heart. Her absence will be deeply felt by her family, friends & all who were moved by her work

Poetry Day Ire is a celebration of poetry taking place today with the theme May Day!
Rich with poetic inspiration, May Day is rooted in the ancient fire festival of Bealtaine which celebrates renewal, hope & abundance.
To celebrate we share this beautiful poem Begin by Brendan Kennelly

Read Irish Women Challenge 2025
Day 29: A book about faithfulness or betrayal- Old Romantics by Maggie Armstrong

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April 2025 is Poetry month in Limerick. For Poetry month we will have a reading each week celebrating Nature. Our last of 4 readings is Gustav Parker Hibbett reading Inis Meáin from the collection High Jump as Icarus Story. Watch here: youtube.com/shorts/5xl82... @gphibbett.bsky.social

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Read Irish Women Challenge 2025:
Day 28: A book that features friendship - Fia and the Last Snow Deer by Eilish Fisher

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Read Irish Women Challenge 2025:
Day 27: A book with a mystery- The World’s End by Karen Fitzgibbon

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