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West Cork Literary Festival
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Thanks for making WCLF2025 so wonderful! Save the dates and join us in Bantry 10-17 July 2026. Sign up for our e-newsletter for programme alerts
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My annual 'Christmas Present To Myself' has arrived and it's a thing of beauty. Another absolute gem curated by Kevin and Olivia in @winterpapers.bsky.social and designed by @bitedesign.com winterpapers.com
Photo of the eleventh issue of Winter Papers. It is a blue hardback book and it is sitting on a yellow cushion
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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It's #IrishBookWeek. Bookselling Ireland's daily prompts to inspire you to discover Irish books
Day 7: Irish book you're going to read next. Mixed Up by Leon Diop
Day 8: Irish book you discovered at a bookshop event. After Party by @deanbrowne.bsky.social
#SeachtainNaLeabharEireannach #IrishBookADay
IRISH BOOK WEEK. SEACHTAIN NA LEABHAR ÉIREANNACH Irish Book a Day Saturday 18 October: Share an Irish bookshop. Sunday 19 October: Share an Irish language book. Monday 20 October: Share an Irish debut book. Tuesday 21 October: Share an Irish book you read recently. Wednesday 22 October: Share an Irish book that you bought in a local bookshop. Thursday 23 October: Share a book set in Northern Ireland. Friday 24 October: Share an Irish book you are going to read next. Saturday 25 October: Share an Irish book you discovered at a bookshop event. #lrishBookWeek #IrishBookADay Logos for Bookselling Ireland and Discover Irish Kids’ Books
October 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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It's #IrishBookWeek. Bookselling Ireland's​ daily prompts to inspire you to discover Irish books
Day 5: Irish book you bought in a local bookshop. Milly McCarthy & Haunted House Hullabooloo, by Leona Forde & illustrated by Karen Harte
Day 6: Book set in Northern Ireland. Injury Time by Kevin Smith
IRISH BOOK WEEK. SEACHTAIN NA LEABHAR ÉIREANNACH Irish Book a Day Saturday 18 October: Share an Irish bookshop. Sunday 19 October: Share an Irish language book. Monday 20 October: Share an Irish debut book. Tuesday 21 October: Share an Irish book you read recently. Wednesday 22 October: Share an Irish book that you bought in a local bookshop. Thursday 23 October: Share a book set in Northern Ireland. Friday 24 October: Share an Irish book you are going to read next. Saturday 25 October: Share an Irish book you discovered at a bookshop event.
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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It's #IrishBookWeek and Bookselling Ireland have​ daily prompts to inspire you to discover Irish books
Day 3: Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel @soula.bsky.social
Day 4: This Interim Time by Oona Frawley @oonaf.bsky.social
#SeachtainNaLeabharEireannach #IrishBookADay
IRISH BOOK WEEK. SEACHTAIN NA LEABHAR ÉIREANNACH Irish Book a Day Saturday 18 October: Share an Irish bookshop. Sunday 19 October: Share an Irish language book. Monday 20 October: Share an Irish debut book. Tuesday 21 October: Share an Irish book you read recently. Wednesday 22 October: Share an Irish book that you bought in a local bookshop. Thursday 23 October: Share a book set in Northern Ireland. Friday 24 October: Share an Irish book you are going to read next. Saturday 25 October: Share an Irish book you discovered at a bookshop event. #lrishBookWeek #IrishBookADay Logos for Bookselling Ireland and Discover Irish Kids’ Books
October 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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It's #IrishBookWeek and Bookselling Ireland have daily prompts to inspire you to discover Irish books
Day 1: Bantry Bookshop
Day 2: Madame Lazare by @tadhgmacdh.bsky.social, Irish-language novel (Special Mention: European Prize for Literature)
#SeachtainNaLeabharEireannach #IrishBookADay
IRISH BOOK WEEK. SEACHTAIN NA LEABHAR ÉIREANNACH Irish Book a Day Saturday 18 October: Share an Irish bookshop. Sunday 19 October: Share an Irish language book. Monday 20 October: Share an Irish debut book. Tuesday 21 October: Share an Irish book you read recently. Wednesday 22 October: Share an Irish book that you bought in a local bookshop. Thursday 23 October: Share a book set in Northern Ireland. Friday 24 October: Share an Irish book you are going to read next. Saturday 25 October: Share an Irish book you discovered at a bookshop event. #lrishBookWeek #IrishBookADay Logos for Bookselling Ireland and Discover Irish Kids’ Books
October 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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How wonderful does this sound! @newislandbooks.bsky.social is launching The Hare's Corner by @janeclarke.bsky.social and Catherine Cleary, illustrated by Jane Carkill. Books Upstairs, Friday 26 September at 6.30pm
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New Island cordially invites you and a guest to the official launch of The Hare's Corner by Jane Clarke, Catherine Cleary illustrated by Jane Carkill. Books Upstairs, Friday 26 September at 6.30pm
September 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Welcome to Culture Night! Join @westcorkmusic.bsky.social for a FREE concert tonight (Fri 19 Sept 8pm) with two concert sets by the Olympia Quartet followed by Julie O'Sullivan and @daithishanahan.bsky.social. And check out the Bantry Culture Trail
Free 🎟️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/...
Photos of musicians, the Olympia Quartet, Julie O'Sullivan and Daithí Shanahan. Culture Night logo
September 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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See you on Friday 19 Sept at 5pm for a FREE Culture Night event in #BantryLibrary with author Anya Bergman. Anya will discuss her new novel The Tarot Reader of Versailles with @oonaghmontague.bsky.social. Join our Bantry Culture Trail of music, books agus caint
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Photo of author Anya Bergman. Front cover of the novel The Tarot Reader of Versailles. Culture Night logo
September 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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August is #WomenInTranslation month. Here are some books we've enjoyed recently written by women in languages other than English & one by translator Jen Calleja about translation & translations. Names of authors, translators, original languages and English-language publishers in alt text #WITMonth
That’s All I Know by Elisa Levi. Translated from Spanish to English by Christina MacSweeney. Published by Daunt Books. There’s A Monster Behind The Door by Gaëlle Bélem. Translated from French to English by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert. Published by Bullaun Press. Wild Boar by Hannah Lutz. Translated from Swedish to English by Andy Turner. Published by The Emma Press. Beloved by Empar Moliner. Translated from Catalan to English by Laura McGloughlin. Published by 3TimesRebel Press. Fair: The Life-Art of Translation by Jen Calleja. Written in English by Jen who regularly translates other people’s books from German to English. Published by Prototype. Whales and Whales by Luisa Castro. Translated from Galician to English by Keith Payne. Published by Skein Press. Why I Killed My Best Friend by Amanda Michalopoulou. Translated from Greek to English by Karen Emmerich. Published by Open Letter.
August 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Organico Café won our WCLF window display competition. Thank you to everyone in Bantry who participated in this competition, it adds so much to the festival feel. There's still time to dress your business for our Masters of Tradition festival (posters etc in @westcorkmusic.bsky.social office)
Photo of Organico Cafe in Bantry with posters of West Cork Literary Festival authors displayed in the shop window Photo of Organico Cafe in Bantry with posters of West Cork Literary Festival authors displayed in the shop window
August 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Shane Tivenan, author of the stunning debut collection To Avenge a Dead Glacier will be in conversation with award-winning writer Danielle McLaughlin in Cork City Library on Thursday 21 August. #FreeEvent @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/to-avenge-...
Shane Tivenan and Danielle McLaughlin in conversation, Thursday 12 August 6pm Cork City Library, Grand Parade. All welcome. Photos of the two authors and the front cover of To Avenge A Dead Glacier, Shane's new book. The Lilliput Press logo and the Arts Council of Ireland logo
August 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Thanks to the Cork Independent for this gorgeous spread of audience photos from the closing night of WCLF, including this fabulous photo of our director Eimear with Ryan Tubridy and Graham Norton outside Evans shop in Bantry #PureCork #Bantry 📸 @darraghkane.bsky.social
Social pics of audience members at West Cork Literary Festival. A double page spread in the Cork Independent
July 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Always a pleasure to be featured in The Echo ❤️ #PureCork
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Article in The Echo newspaper about the final event of West Cork Literary Festival. The headline reads "Talk-masters were hottest ticket in town" and there is a photo of Bantry shopkeeper Jennifer Evans with Graham Norton and Ryan Tubridy. Article can be read at link in the post
July 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The WCLF 2025 wrap up has just started but the 2026 reading pile is growing and ready to go #PerkOfTheJob #AmReading ❤️📚🤓
Bundle of books on a table in a sunny garden. The books are: Still, Julia Kelly. To Avenge A Dead Glacier, Shandon Given an. The Boy From The Sea, Garrett Carr. I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There Róisín Lanigan. Show Me Where It Hurts, Claire Gleeson. A Family Matter, Claire Lynch. Injury Time, Kevin Smith. Water In The Desert Fire In The Night, Gethan Dick. This Interim Time, Oona Frawley. Spring Seaweed, Máirtín Ó Direáin. Kin, An Anthology of Poetry Story and Art by Women from Romani Traveller and Nomadic Communities. Assembling Ailish, Sharon Guard.
July 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Mark your calendars, book your annual leave and come and see us in #Bantry next summer ☀️ ❤️ #SaveTheDate 10-17 July 2026 @westcorkmusic.bsky.social
West Cork Literary Festival. Save the dates 10-17 July 2026
July 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Welcome Graham Norton and Ryan Tubridy.

What a perfect pairing to close the festival.

Graham Norton, Festival Director Eimear O'Herlihy and Ryan Tubridy in M. Evans shop, Bantry.

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Photo: @darraghkane.bsky.social

#WCLF25 #wclf2025
July 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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6.30pm today: We're really looking forward to this event with masters of poetry, Thomas McCarthy & @ruthpadel.bsky.social. Thomas & Ruth will read from their collections Plenitude and Girl & will be introduced by fellow poet John Fitzgerald
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Photos of poet Thomas McCarthy and Ruth Padel
July 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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2.30pm today: @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social & Lisa Harding will be in Marino Church chatting to Deirdre O'Shaughnessy. Join us for an afternoon of incredible fiction. Limited tickets available on the door @sceptrebooks.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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Photos of authors Wendy Erskine and Lisa Harding. And the front covers of their novels The Benefactors and The Wildelings
July 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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The last hurrah! Can you believe it's the final day of WCLF2025! Day 8 promises loads of literary treats so come and join us ❤️
Schedule for day eight of West Cork Literary Festival 10.00, Barbara Leahy, Bantry House Loggia. 11.30, Patrick Holloway, Bantry Bookshop. 12.00, President Book Series: Peter Donnelly, St Brendans School Hall. 13.00, James Harpur, Bantry Library. 14.30, Lisa Harding & Wendy Erskine, Marino Church. 15.00, Readings from UCC's MA in Creative Writing, Maritime Hotel. 17.00, From The Well, Bantry Library. 18.30, Thomas McCarthy & Ruth Padel, Marino Church. 20.30, Graham Norton, Maritime Hotel.
July 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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👀 Here's a look at Day 08, the final day of the festival!!

Join us

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🔗 Ticket link www.westcorkmusic.ie/literary-festival/programme/

and in person from the Festival office at 13 Glengarrif Road.
July 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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8.30pm tonight Marino Church: @marthabayne.bsky.social @miekeeerkens.bsky.social & Allyson McCabe, three essayists who contributed to "Nothing Compares To You: What Sinéad O'Connor Means To Us" will be in conversation with music journalist @eoghantpoe.bsky.social
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Front cover of "Nothing Compares To You: What Sinéad O'Connor Means To Us" alongside photos of the three contributors who will speak at West Cork Literary Festival, Martha Bayne, Mieke Eerkens and Allyson McCabe
July 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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6.30pm today: debut @picadorbooks.bsky.social novelists Louise Hegarty & Gráinne O'Hare @spacedolphin93.bsky.social will read from two of this year's buzziest books & chat to Mike Ryan. Sarah Moss is no longer part of this event but it will still be brilliant 💚📚
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Photos of novelists Louise Hegarty and Gráinne O'Hare and their novels Fair Play and Thirst Trap
July 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Thanks to The Southern Star for making us front page news 🤩 We're having the most amazing week here in Bantry and we've loads more to come before our WCLF finale tomorrow night
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Front cover of The Southern Star newspaper showing a photo of Richard E Grant at West Cork Literary Festival
July 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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We have the *perfect rainy day event for you 🌧️☔ Author Susan Cahill is bringing her children's novel The World Between The Rain to St Brendan's Hall at 12pm today. #Free Ages 9+
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Photo of author Susan Cahill and her book The World Between The Rain
July 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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📢 Update: Change of Venue

Tiffany Murray 'My Family and Other Rock Stars' will now take place inside Marino Church.

Tiffany will be in conversation with music and arts journalist, Pat Carty.

🎟️Tickets available on the door.
July 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM