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The festival was conceived as a way of bringing people to the beautiful heritage town to walk in the footsteps of pilgrims past, bringing visitors on an illuminating journey of debate, discussion, reflection and imagination on the world as it is, and how it might be.<\/p>\n<p>To date Hinterland has &nbsp;welcomed an array of stellar guests to Kells, including all the leading Irish fiction writers (Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn, Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Joseph O\u2019Connor, John Boyne, John Banville, Liz Nugent, Marion Keyes) ; Sinead Gleeson, Deirdre Kinahan and a number of major UK writers and artists (Germaine Greer, Jung Chang, Jeremy Paxman, Brian Eno, Ben Okri, Hanif Kureishi, Jeannette Winterson, Louis de Berni\u00e8res). 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