{"id":26819,"date":"2023-09-16T03:03:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T02:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/dromineer-nenagh-literary-festival\/"},"modified":"2023-09-18T15:29:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T14:29:46","slug":"dromineer-nenagh-literary-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/dromineer-nenagh-literary-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Dromineer &amp; Nenagh Literary Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dromineer and Nenagh Literary Festival is celebrating it&#8217;s 20th anniversary\u00a0 which takes place between the 5th to 8th October 2023. All are invited to join us in the beautiful historic town of Nenagh and the environs of Lough Derg to indulge your interest in the world of books and literature.<\/p>\n<p>Fiction, crime, memoir, sport, style, art and drama make for a varied and exciting lineup at this year\u2019s Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Carlow-based artist Bridget Flannery has created a series of pieces under the title \u2018River Traces\u2019, which are inspired by Ryan\u2019s novel \u2018Queen of Dirt Island\u2019. This art exhibition will be in Nenagh Arts Centre for the month of October.<\/p>\n<p>The opening night this year has three local writers: poets Eleanor Hooker and Sean O\u2019Connor, and novelist, Siobhan MacGowan, reading from their work. The same evening, bestselling author and screenwriter Emma Donoghue (\u2018Room\u2019) comes to the festival for the first time. She\u2019ll be joined onstage by Sin\u00e9ad Gleeson to discuss her new novel, \u2018Learned by Heart\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Memoir and poetry will be discussed by award-winning writers Vona Groarke and Kit deWaal, who will also be conducting master classes over the weekend. For crime fans, bestselling authors Catherine Ryan Howard and Andrea Mara will be in Nenagh Arts Centre on Saturday night. Both authors\u2019 recent books \u2018The Trap\u2019 and \u2018No-one Saw A Thing\u2019 have been runaway successes.<\/p>\n<p>With lots more to enjoy please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/dnlf.ie\/\">the website<\/a> for the full programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":26820,"template":"","class_list":["post-26819","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dromineer &amp; Nenagh Literary Festival - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dromineer and Nenagh Literary Festival is celebrating it&#039;s 20th anniversary\u00a0 which takes place between the 5th to 8th October 2023.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/dromineer-nenagh-literary-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dromineer &amp; Nenagh Literary Festival - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dromineer and Nenagh Literary Festival is celebrating it&#8217;s 20th anniversary\u00a0 which takes place between the 5th to 8th October 2023. 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