Listowel Writers' Week 2009 | May 27 - May 31

last update: 21 april, 2008

20.00 Official Opening of Writers' Week 2009
Arms Hotel
11.00 RTE Sunday Miscellany –
Recorded Live from Writers’ Week
St John’s Theatre
& Arts Centre
11.30 Readings from the Winners of the Writers’ Week Literary Competitions
Arns Hotel
12.00 Art Exhibition
Michael Flaherty – The Orbit of Salt Water
Lartigue Musem
13.00 Lunchtime Theatre –
Bonfire Night & Arsehammers
St John’s Theatre
& Arts Centre
14.30 David Park
Arms Hotel
14.30 Art Exhibition by John Morris -
Summer Light Co Kerry
St John’s Theatre
& Arts Centre
16.00 RTE - The Arts Show Special presented by Vincent Woods live from Writers’ Week
Arms Hotel
16.00 John Montague
St John’s Theatre
& Arts Centre
16.30 Art Exhibition
Deborah Donnelly – The Farmyard
Seanchaí Literary
& Cultural Centre
17.00 Dr Ivor Browne in an Interview with Colm Toibín
Arms Hotel
18.30 The AIB Press Photographers Association of Ireland Exhibition
AIB Bank
The Square
19.00 Jung Chang
Arms Hotel
20.00 Readings by Mary Morrissy, Declan Hughes and Martina Evans
Seanchaí Literary
& Cultural Centre
20.30 Film Club - The Good, The Bad And The Weird
Classic Cinema
20.30 Evening Theatre – Sive
St John’s Theatre
& Arts Centre
21.00 Literary Pub Trail
commencing at Arms Hotel
21.00 Poet’s Corner
Kingdom Bar
11.00 Book Launches: Georgina Eddison and Through An Open Window by Mary Lavery Carrig
Seanchaí Literary
& Cultural Centre
12.00 Readings by Christine Dwyer Hickey & Kevin Barry
St John’s Theatre
& Arts Centre
13.00 Amnesty International Ireland Event
Re-Imagining the Republic
Arms Hotel
14.30 Colm Tóibín
Arms Hotel
14.30 Youth Speaks – Poetry Slam
Plaza Centre
15.30 Afternoon Poetry Café – Poems without Pints
Lynch’s Bakery
& Coffee Shop
16.30 Damon Galgut
Arms Hotel
18.00 James Kelman
St John's Theatre
& Arts Centre
19.30 George Kimball in an interview with Billy Keane
Arms Hotel
20.30 Film Club - Cadillac Records
Classic Cinema
20.30 Evening Theatre – Bondi Beach Boy Blue
St John’s Theatre
& Arts Centre
21.00 Poet’s Corner
Kingdom Bar
21.00 Songwriters Showcase
Saddle Bar
23.00 Film Club - Frost/Nixon
Classic Cinema
12.00 Rebecca Miller
Arms Hotel
13.00 Book Launch –
Tomorrow is a Lovely Day by Tony Guerin
Seanchai Literary
& Cultural Centre
13.00 Lunchtime Theatre – The Tinker’s Curse
St John’s Theatre
& Arts Centre
14.00 The Literary & Historical Tour
departing from
The Square
14.00 Leland Bardwell Event
Seanchai Literary
& Cultural Centre
15.30 Gerry Jackson
The Seamus Wilmot Memorial Lecture
Arms Hotel
16.30 Book Launch - Heather Island - Poems by Joan McBreen
Seanchai Literary
& Cultural Centre
17.00 Terry Jones
Arms Hotel
19.00 Words and Music with Louis De Bernières
Arms Hotel
20.30 Film Club - The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Classic Cinema
20.30 Evening Theatre – On Raftery’s Hill
St John’s Theatre
& Arts Centre
21.30 The Final of the Adult Story Telling Competition
Arms Hotel
23.00 Film Club - Dean Spanley
Classic Cinema
13.00 Lunchtime Theatre – Moby Dick
St John’s Theatre
& Arts Centre
14.30 Dermot Bolger
Arms Hotel
15.30 Historical Walking Tour
leaving from
Arms Hotel
16.30 Poetic Voices in Memory of the Poet Michael Hartnett
St John’s Theatre
& Arts Centre
17.30 Carol Drinkwater
Arms Hotel
19.30 Poets Corner in Memory of Maureen Beasley
Mermaids Bar
20.30

Evening Theatre - All About Eve

St John’s Theatre
& Arts Centre
20.30

Film Club - The Young Victoria

Classic Cinema