CATHAL PÓIRTÉIR I gCOMHRÁ LE hALEX HIJMANS
SATURDAY 5 MARCH 3.10pm
In Conversation – Council Chamber, Dublin’s City Hall
Tickets: FREE – admission is FREE to this event, but you do need to reserve a seat. Click here to BOOK NOW!! Tickets can be collected from Dublin’s City Hall on the day of the performance only. Tickets must be collected a minimum of 30 minutes before the scheduled performance.
CATHAL PÓIRTÉIR is an award-winning radio producer with more than 25 years experience on RTÉ Radio 1 and several best-selling books on Irish language literature, folklore and history, in both Irish and English. He has been a guest speaker at many conferences in Ireland and overseas. At present, his weekly programmes include Comhluadar na Leabhar on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and RTÉ Radio 1. Cathal is also Chair of the IMRAM literature festival.
ALEX HIJMANS was born in Holland In 1975. Alex worked for Foinse, Raidió na Gaeltachta, RTÉ and Nuacht TG4 for ten years. In 2007 Alex spent six months living in a poor suburb on the outskirts of Salvador, the third largest city in Brazil. This provided the material for his memoir, Favela. His novel, Aiséirí, has just been published by Cois Life.

CATHAL PÓIRTÉIR I gCOMHRÁ LE hÉILÍS NÍ DHUIBHNE
SATURDAY 5 MARCH 4.15pm
In Conversation – Council Chamber, Dublin’s City Hall
Tickets: FREE – admission is FREE to this event, but you do need to reserve a seat. Click here to BOOK NOW!! Tickets can be collected from Dublin’s City Hall on the day of the performance only. Tickets must be collected a minimum of 30 minutes before the scheduled performance.
ÉILÍS NÍ DHUIBHNE is an acclaimed author in both English and Irish. Her novel, The Dancers Dancing was shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction. She has won numerous Oireachtas Prizes for her fiction in Irish, including the bestseller, Dúnmharú sa Daingean. Dordán is her latest novel.

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