Events

Friday 16 October 1 pm
MOYA CANNON and LEONTIA FLYNN

Leontia’s first collection, These Days (Cape, 2004) won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize.Her second collection Drives (Cape, 2008) was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. In 2008 she received the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a major individual artist award from the Northern Irish Arts Council. Leontia lives in Belfast.

Moya Cannon was born in Donegal and now lives in Galway. She has published three collections of poems, Oar (Salmon, 1990), The Parchment Boat (Gallery Press, 1997) and Carrying the Songs, New and Selected Poems, (Carcanet, 2007). Moya has received both the Brendan Behan Award and the Lawrence O Shaughnessy Award for her poetry. She is a member of Aosdána.

In association with Dingle Writing Courses




Saturday 31 October
12 pm - I pm

MARY COUGHLAN signs copies of her autobiography Bloody Mary. Since she rose to international fame in 1985 with her seminal Irish jazz album Tired and Emotional, Mary Coughlan’s battles with addiction, the problems in her personal life and career have been well documented. But until now she has never spoken of the traumatic events in her childhood that led to a life of rebellion, running away, and reliance on drugs and alcohol.

In this funny, moving and typically outspoken memoir, Ireland’s best-loved jazz singer pulls no punches in getting to the heart of what made Mary so contrary.

Mary sings in McCarthy’s Bar, Goat Street, Dingle on Friday 30 October at 9 pm