Ennis Book Club Festival - List of Events

Festival Registration
15.00 Onwards
Clare Museum
FRIDAY 2ND MARCH
Chocolate tasting at “Chocolat”
18.30
Barrack Street
FREE EVENT
Wine Reception
20.00
Temple Gate Hotel
FREE EVENT
Festival Launch by Niall Williams, Cantare Choir and Ennis Players
20.30
Temple Gate Hotel
FREE EVENT
Readings by Niall Williams and Evelyn Conlon
20.40
Temple Gate Hotel
FREE EVENT
Book Club Table Quiz
22.00
Temple Gate Hotel
FREE EVENT
Late Film – The Butcher Boy
22.30
Empire Movieplex
€7
SATURDAY 3RD MARCH
‘How to Read a Novel’ by Kate Bateman
09.30 – 11.30
Old Ground Hotel
€8/€5
‘How to Read Poetry’ by Mary O’Malley
10.00 – 11.30
Clare Museum
€8/€5
Chocolate tasting at “Chocolat”
10.30
Barrack Street
FREE EVENT
Poetry reading with Mary O’Donnell and Thomas McCarthy
11.30 – 12.30
Clare Museum
€6
Ré Ó Laighléis – a bilingual reading
11.45 – 12.45
DeValera Library
FREE EVENT
Eddie Stack – a reading
11.45 – 12.45
The Ennis Bookshop
FREE EVENT
Anne Enright – a reading
12.30 – 13.30
Clare Museum
€12
Walking tour of Ennis with Seán Spellissy
12.30 – 13.30
DeValera Library
€8
A “how to” session on book clubs by Austin Vaughan
13.00 – 13.30
Old Ground Hotel
FREE EVENT
Cookery demo with Denis Cotter of Café Paradiso, Cork
14.30 – 16.00
Holy Family School
€10/5
Patrick McCabe – a reading
14.30 – 15.30
Old Ground Hotel
€12
Rita Ann Higgins – poetry reading
16.00 – 17.00
Old Ground Hotel
€10/8
Poetry reading with Mary O’Malley and Michael Coady
16.00 – 17.00
Clare Museum
€6
Chocolate tasting at “Chocolat”
17.00
Barrack Street
FREE EVENT
“John McGahern Papers” with Archivist Fergus Fahy
17.15 – 17.45
Clare Museum
€5
Edna O’Brien, reading and interview – chaired by Noel Crowley
20.00 – 21.30
Glór
€15/12
Festival Club with Ennis Singers Club
22.00 ‘til late
Old Ground Hotel
FREE EVENT
Late Film – Breakfast on Pluto
22.30
Empire Movieplex
€7
SUNDAY 4TH MARCH
Sunday Symposium:
Charlie Bird, Rosita Boland, P.J. Curtis, Carlo Gébler: “Selling your Book – the Thrill and the Terror” chaired by Caimin Jones
10.00 – 12.00
Old Ground Hotel
€12
“Kate O’Brien Papers” with Archivist Róisin Berry
12.15 – 12.45
DeValera Library
FREE EVENT
“Edward MacLysaght” léacht as Gaeilge ó Seán Ó Ceallaigh
12.45 – 13.15
Scéal Eile Bookshop
FREE EVENT
Dermot Healy – reading and lunchtime chat (Lunch €10 Extra)
13.30 – 15.00
Glór
€10