Lee Dunne: crying out your nose
Lee Dunne is a [prolific] novelist, short story writer, playwright and radio scriptwriter. He lives in Dublin with his wife Maura and has spent almost all his adult life scribbling stories. He leapt...
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Shane Connaughton will be reading as part of the Lunchtime Reading series at the Irish Writers’ Centre today Friday, 24th February at 1.05pm. The Lunchtime Readings will run on Fridays throughout...
View ArticlePoet Geraldine Mitchell at IWC
Geraldine Mitchell is reading this Friday as part of the Lunchtime Reading series at the Irish Writers’ Centre on Friday, March 2nd at 1.05pm. The Lunchtime Readings run (on Fridays) throughout...
View ArticlePoetry as a performative act
Paul Perry is the author and editor of a number of critically acclaimed books including The Drowning of the Saints, Goldsmith’s Ghost, 108 Moons and The Orchid Keeper. A recipient of the Hennessy New...
View ArticleMary Costello & The Short Story
As a reader I like the contained feel of a short story. The voice must reach me. I like to be disarmed, taken into a character’s head, to experience some small almost imperceptible shift in their...
View ArticleDenise Blake: work, read, sprint through poetry
Denise Blake will read this Friday at the Irish Writers’ Centre (1pm) as part of the Lunctime Readings. She was born in Lakewood Ohio in 1958 and returned to Ireland with her parents and family to...
View ArticleThat storytelling instinct
We’re chuffed to have Keith Ridgway read at the Centre on Friday 9th November at 1.05pm, as part of the Lunchtime Readings series. His most recent novel, Hawthorn & Child, published by Granta has...
View ArticleKen Bruen at the Irish Writers’ Centre
Galway-based author Ken Bruen is an enormously prolific, and celebrated author of crime-noir fiction. His many works include the Jack Taylor series which began with the Shamus Award -winning The...
View ArticleSelina Guinness: the ordinary, everyday compromises of self and other…
Selina Guinness is reading this week at our Lunchtime Readings series. She was born, and grew up, in Dublin and currently lectures in English literature in the Department of Humanities at the Institute...
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