LAUNCH OF OCTOBER MOON BY MICHAEL SCOTT
FRIDAY 4 MARCH 12.00pm: Come Celebrate!
Launch Area, City Hall
Admission Free – no booking necessary!
MICHAEL SCOTT was first published in 1981. Since then, he has written and published approximately fifty books, including stories from Celtic mythology, fairytales, fantasy and horror. The Irish Guide to Children’s Books praised Michael Scott for his ‘unparalleled contribution to children’s literature’. He lives in Dublin.

LAUNCH OF PLATFORM 14 An Anthology of New Writing
by the MA in Creative Writing, UCD 2010
FRIDAY 4 MARCH 2.00pm: Come Celebrate!
Launch Area, City Hall
Admission Free – no booking necessary!

LAUNCH OF TROMACH TRAMACH BY ORNA NÍ CHOILEÁIN
FRIDAY 4 MARCH 3.00pm: Come Celebrate!
Launch Area, City Hall
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ORNA NÍ CHOILEÁIN has won numerous prizes for creative prose, poetry, drama and short stories in the Oireachtas Competitions. She also enjoys writing in English and has been awarded the An Post National Penmanship prize. Orna is the author of Canary Wharf: Cnuasach gearrscéalta, published by Cois Life.

THE CHILEAN EMBASSY IN IRELAND INTRODUCE NOVELIST MR JORGE EDWARDS
FRIDAY 4 MARCH 4.00pm: Come Celebrate!
Launch Area, City Hall
Admission Free – no booking necessary!
Jorge Edwards is Ambassador for Chile in France and a Permanent Delegate of Chile to UNESCO. Alongside his political career, Jorge has written many novels including El peso de la noche, Persona non grata (memoir), Los convidados de piedra, Adios, Poeta, El museo de cera, El inútil de la familia and more recently, La casa de Dostoievsky.

LAUNCH OF THE LAST IRISH PLAGUE – THE GREAT FLU EPIDEMIC IN IRELAND 1918-19 BY CAITRIONA FOLEY
SATURDAY 5 MARCH 1.00pm: Come Celebrate!
Launch Area, City Hall
Admission Free – no booking necessary!
CAITRIONA FOLEY gained her PhD in History from University College Dublin in 2009. Whilst a postgraduate student at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, her research was supported by funding from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. This is her first book.

LAUNCH OF THE BOY IN THE GAP BY PAUL SOYE
SATURDAY 5 MARCH 5.00: Come Celebrate!
Launch Area, City Hall
Admission Free – no booking necessary!
PAUL SOYE is the author of two full-length plays; Cherished and The Birdcage, winner of the Esso New Irish Play 2006. In 2002 he was shortlisted for the BBC’s Tony Doyle Award. Paul has also written a one-act play for young children and his play In Irons was broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1’s Sunday Night Playhouse. The Boy in the Gap is published by Liberties Press.

THE RATHMINES WRITERS’ WORKSHOP
with short readings to celebrate 21 years of the Rathmines Writers’ Workshop
SUNDAY 6 MARCH 11.15am: Come Celebrate!
Main Stage, City Hall
Admission Free – no booking necessary!
THE RATHMINES WRITERS’ WORKSHOP was founded in 1990 and some twenty three books of poetry and stories by members have been published. A play The Ten Commandments was staged and received a review by RTÉ. A sample of the workshop in action was featured in the Ask Anna programme and screened on RTÉ 1.

SALMON POETRY: 30TH ANNIVERSARY
Anne Le Marquand Hartigan, Nessa O’Mahony, Maurice Harmon, Patrick Chapman
SUNDAY 6 MARCH 12.15pm: Come Celebrate!
Main Stage, City Hall
Admission Free – no booking necessary!
ANNE LE MARQUAND HARTIGAN is a prize-winning poet, playwright and painter. She has published six collections of poetry, including: To Keep The Light Burning, Nourishment, Immortal Sins and, Now is a Moveable Feast, all published by Salmon. Her prose work includes, Clearing The Space, A Why of Writing.
NESSA O’MAHONY’S published work includes her innovative verse novel, In Sight of Home, a poetry collection, Bar Talk and Trapping a Ghost. Currently she is a Creative Writing Tutor at the Irish Writers’ Centre and Associate Lecturer at The Open University. She is Assistant Editor of the UK literary journal Orbis.
MAURICE HARMON has published five poetry collections with Salmon Poetry; most recently, When Love is Not Enough, New & Selected Poems. As well as being a poet, he is the leading scholarcritic of his generation in the field of Anglo-Irish Literature.
PATRICK CHAPMAN’S latest poetry collection is, The Darwin Vampires, the title poem of which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His earlier collections are Jazztown, The New Pornography, Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights and, A Shopping Mall on Mars.

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