Summer Notes – Music, Wine & Words – Friday, July 18th 2025, 7.30pm, Tullamore Park, €35
DNLF are delighted to welcome Booker Prize winning author and screenwriter, John Banville, for our summer event in the beautiful setting of Tullamore Park. Professor Sarah Moore Fitzgerald director of
UL’s Creative Writing School will be the moderator.
Music will be provided by cellist, Gráinne Higgins.
There will be a Rosé & Cashel Blue reception prior to the interview, courtesy of Country Choice.
Tickets are €35 (Includes reception and bus to the venue)
Where?
Venue is Tullamore Park.
ACCESS TO THE VENUE IS BY COURTESY BUS ONLY. THE BUS WILL LEAVE FROM STEREAME RETAIL PARK AT 6.15PM SHARP
Show length : 90 mins
Interval : None
Warnings : None
Suitable Age : Adults only
John Banville:
John Banville is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and book reviewer. He
worked in journalism for many years, and was literary editor at The Irish Times
from 1988 to 2000. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of
Books, the Guardian, New Statesman and other journals.
His novels include The Book of Evidence, The Sea, and, most recently, The
Singularities. Among the awards he has received are the Man Booker Prize, the
Austrian State Prize for Literature, the Kafka Prize, Irish PEN Award and the
Prince of Asturias Award. He has written a number of crime novels, including
Snow, and, most recently, The Drowned. He was born in Wexford, and lives in
Dublin.
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald:
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald is a teacher, researcher and novelist based at the University of Limerick where she’s the director of the MA in Creative writing and of UL’s Creative Writing Winter School. Her creative work has been adapted for the stage and translated into over twenty languages. She’s the author of seven novels for children and young adults, has been shortlisted for literary awards including the Waterstones Prize, The Irish Book Awards, The Frances Browne Poetry award and The Jack Harte Bursary.
Gráinne Ó hUiginn:
Gráinne Ó hUiginn is a cellist, singer and music educator from Portroe, Co. Tipperary. Gráinne is a graduate from MTU Cork School of Music where she achieved a first-class honours Bachelor of Music degree, specialising in cello performance with Christopher Marwood. Gráinne is a passionate orchestral and chamber musician, having played with MTU Cork School of Music Symphony Orchestra as principal cellist, and participated in ensembles such as the Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy Project, Esker Festival Orchestra, Irish Youth Baroque Orchestra, IAYO Concorda and the Irish Film and Pops Orchestra.
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