Saturday 22 April Sunday23 april

All DayCork Community Artlink and Cork City Libraries present “All the Colours in the Book”, our community arts project for 2017, in the City Library and on Grand Parade.

Children’s Library - 11:00 Deirdre Ryan’s Story, Rhythm and Rhyme suitable for children from birth – 5 years old accompanied by an adult.

Children’s Library - 15:00Suitable for ages 6-8 Booking EssentialFadó Fadó. Millicent Doyle’s children’s theatre piece based on ancient Irish Legends and in association with CIT Cork School of Music What makes old stories old? And how can we make them new again? Fadó Fadó is a devised piece based on Ancient Irish legends and fairy tales that explores these questions.

City Library - 13:00-13.30 - FREE3 sisters by Jane Austendramatised by Chattyboo Productions. Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the author’s death, Angela Newman and Judie Chalmers present scenes from this short unfinished novel.

City Library - 14:00 - FREEWorld Voices on the eve of World Book Day: German and CatalanFlorian Wacker was born in Stuttgart. In Albuquerque he tells classical short stories in the tradition of US writers such as William Faulkner or Richard Yates. Wacker gives his characters a real voice, which can be sad, serious, political and humorous.

Flavia Company was born in Buenos Aires but moved to Barcelona, while still a child. A novelist and teacher, she is a prolific writer in Spanish and Catalan and translator of many genres, a contributor to print media, and has directed and presented TVprogrammes. The author of more than ten novels, her The Island of Last Truth has been translated into English.

DISFRUTEU de la FESTA CATALANA dels LLIBRES i la LITERATURA a CORK

FRINGE EVENT - Friday 28th AprilSTUDENT BOOKSTriskel ChristchurchPublic event 1-2pm. Free but booking essential as places are limited.

Launch of books written by transition year students from St. Angela’s College with special guest Stefanie Preissner, screenwriter, playwright and actor. Stefanie’s six-part comedy-drama series, Can’t Cope/Won’t Cope brought her huge public acclaim. She has also written successful stage plays, Our Father and Solpadeine is My Boyfriend, both of which enjoyed sell-out runs in Dublin and National Tours.

WORKSHOP Turning a short story into a novelTriskel Project Space

WORKSHOP Parent and child (0-3) workshops Triskel Project Space

Tuesday & Wednesday, April 18th & 19th 10:30AM (40 minutes)

€5 per child per workshop. Limited space so booking essential. Beag is an early years arts programme of Graffiti Theatre Company, supported by Cork City Council, County Council and HSE South.

Molly Keane: A LifeBus leaving the City Library, Grand Parade at 13:00 for arrival in Ardmore at 15:45.

Bus will stop in Youghal from 13:45 to 15:00, to allow people time for lunch if they wish

BOOKING €10.00

Triskel Christchurch - 14:30 - €6 / €5WRITERS AND CRITICSEileen Battersby in conversation with Eibhear WalsheTeethmarks on my Tongue is Eileen Battersby’s first novel, with impressive characterization, humour and a vivid sense of place. It takes a clever, if barely street-wise teenaged narrator on a physical and psychological journey towards an astute, hard fought, and deserved, maturity. Eileen’s novel is a work of fiction, while Eibhear’s The Diary of Mary Travers, his most recent novel, is based on historical facts.

Triskel Christchurch - 16:00 - €6 / €5COMEDY AND BIOGRAPHYWith Paul Howard aka Ross O’Carroll-KellyPaul and Ross will come together to read from and talk about Ross’s latest comic novels Game of Throw-ins, about Ross’s mid-life crisis (35 and feeling the loss of all potential never realised).

Triskel Christchurch - 20:00 - FREEA CELEBRATION OF First NOVELS Introduced by poet, short story and novelist William Wall with Alan McMonagle and Billy O’Callaghan.Ithaca is Alan McMonagle’s first novel. This is a darkly comic story of how far a lonely boy will go to find what he’s looking for, and how in searching for what we’ve lost, we risk losing sight of what we have.

The Dead House is Billy O’Callaghan’s first novel. Maggie Turner, a successful young artist, moves from London to Allihies and buys an abandoned cottage from pre-Famine times.

Both Billy and Alan are accomplished short story writers and these novels are their first published forays into the longer form.

City Library - 10:00-16:30 - FREE but booking essential

The CONSTANT READER: ‘Getting Published’10-11.30 Agent Panel: Simon Trewin (WME) & Polly Nolan (The Greenhouse Literary Agency)

12-1.00 Author panel: Alex Barclay, Catherine Ryan Howard and Mary Malone

2-4.30 Getting published:Vanessa O’Loughlin

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Friday APRIL 21st 11:00 - 16:00€50 - Spaces limited.Have you a short story that is crying out to be a novel? Paul McVeigh, who developed one of his short stories into his award-winning debut novel 'The Good Son' will discuss his process and help you figure out how you could to do the same with your story. Come prepared to work hard and get lots of feedback on your ideas.

Florian Wacker

Flavia Company

City Library | Grand Parade | Triskel Christchurch

18-23 APRIL

Celebrating Molly Keane’s life and work

Anna SebbaLisa Carey

Colm Ó CeallacháinEd O'Loughlin

Ciler IlanRoss O'Carroll Kelly

Ales StegerAlex Barclay

Eileen BattersbyFlavia Company

Sam BlakeFlorian Wacker

William Ryan and more . . .

Street Book Fair

Book Launches

Teens & Kids events

Cover RevolutionExhibition in City Library April 18- May 20

"Cover Revolution!" aims at highlighting how, during the last ten years, illustrators have contributed to reinventing the image of the major Italian publishing houses. Featuring works by some of the most acclaimed Italian illustrators, such as Lorenzo Mattotti, Franco Matticchio, Guido Scarabottolo, Gianluigi Toccafondo, Emiliano Ponzi and Olimpia Zagnoli. In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Dublin and Laboratorio Formentini, Milan.

B00KING INFORMATION Library events are not ticketed; workshops can be booked by calling 021 4924900

Triskel events can be booked online at; http://triskelartscentre.ie or by calling 021 4272022

Other partners

Booking details: Triskel Box Office | 0214272022 |

www.triskelartscentre.ie

TUESDAY 18 APRILFriday 21 April

OFFICIAL OPENING

Cllr. Des Cahill, Lord Mayor of Cork, will officialy open the 13th edition of theCork World Book Fest.The City Library, Grand Parade at 19:00

City Library - 19:15 - FREE Molly Keane: A Life The Irish literary queen of black comedy, Molly Keane, died on April 22, 1996. To commemorate the 21st year of her passing Cork World Book Fest celebrates the woman and her writings with her daughters Sally Phipps and Virginia Brownlow. Sally Phipps’ biography Molly Keane: a life has just been published to great acclaim. In conversation with Thomas McCarthy, and archive footage from RTE.

City Library - 20:30 - FREE The Dogs of Inishere The Dogs of Inishere collects stories from Alannah Hopkin's thirty year career as a fiction and travel writer. The stories wrestle with numerous literary influences, including Bolaño, Keats, Poe, Wilde, Malcolm Lowry and B.S. Johnson.

"Clean, clear, sharp, savage - absolutely bloody brilliant" Carlo Gébler.

It will be introduced by journalist and writer, Mary Kenny.

City Library - 17:00 - FREE but booking essentialMáistir-Rang sa scríbhneoireacht i nGaeilge le Colm Ó Ceallacháin agus baill de chuid Peann & Pár – grúpa scríobhnoirí lonnaithe sa Leabharlann.

City Library - 17:00 - FREE In Between Silence, where we really exist In Between Silence, where we really exist is a collection of stories of personal significance from some of Ireland’s finest writers and artists. Composer / Producer Stano, created a musical composition for each participant. He didn’t hear the story and the participant didn’t hear the composition until they started to record. The film captures the spontaneous response of each person to the music and the impact it had on their delivery.

Discover the power of the shared experience of music and storytelling, of listening, of allowing your imagination to bring you on a journey while engaging with the voice of the storyteller.

Wednesday 19 AprilThursday 20 April

TEEN DAY! City Library, all day from 10:30

10:30am Welcome from the City Librarian

10:35am Winner of Teen Committee Art Competition announced

10:40am Launch of Graphic Novel in conjunction with Cork Comic Creators

10:50am Winner of 10th Annual Short Story Competition announced by judge and award winning short story writer Kevin Doyle

11:00am Open invitation from Cork City Libraries’ Teen Committee The Teen Committee invites teenagers to participate in a varied programme of events and workshops throughout the day.

City Library - 19:00 - FREE A celebration of poetry, old and newCelebrating two new chapbooks, by John Fitzgerald and Aidan Mathews, launched by Patrick Cotter, Director of the Munster Literature Centre.

Deep Heart’s Core; in this long awaited anthology 100 Irish poets revisit a favourite, key or touchstone poem of their own; introduced by joint editor Eugene O’Connell.

The anthology will be launched by one of Ireland’s greatest poets, Bernard O’Donoghue.

In conjunction with Cork City Libraries’ Teen Committee. For a full programme listing contact eibhlin_cassidy@corkcity.ie

Launches, interviews, readings, workshops,

film screenings, art installations, competitions

and more!

City Library - 18:00 - FREESEOLADH LEABHAR I dtír mhilis na mbeoFoilsíodh scéalta le Colm Ó Ceallacháin in Comhar, Feasta, Southword agus Gorse, agus tá duaiseanna Oireachtais buaite aige ar chuid díobh sin. Bhronn an Chomhairle Ealaíon dámhachtain air in 2013 i Litríocht na Gaeilge. Is é I Dtír Mhilis Na Mbeo a chéad chnuasach gearrscéalta.

City Library - 19:00 - FREENOVELS - FOLKLORE and EXPLORATION Lisa Carey & Ed O’Loughlin Lisa Carey’s obsession with Ireland, and specifically Inishbofin, and the evacuation of the island led her to write The Stolen Child, her fourth novel set in the fictional island of St. Brigid. Sisters Rose and Emer refuse to let go of their traditions and superstitions Lisa lives in the U.S. but spent five years living in Ireland

Author and Journalist Ed O’Loughlin’s third novel Minds of Winter is built around characters who braved the cold unknown and did not return. Fay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson arrived in Inuvik, Canada -120 miles north of the Arctic Circle – and discover an unexpected link. Born in Canada, Ed grew up and lives in Ireland.

Lisa and Ed will be introduced by documentary maker and author Peadar King.

Triskel Christchurch - 20:30-21.30 - €6/€5 FRENCH WOMEN - past and present Reading and discussion with Anne Sebba, author of Les Parisiennes.As the French Presidential election draws close (April 23), Anne Sebba, biographer, lecturer and journalist, discusses women in France – past and present - in conversation with Dr. Mary Noonan, French Department UCC. Anne’s Les Parisiennes is the first in-depth account of the everyday lives of women and young girls in Paris and the aftershock of the Second World War.

City Library - 19:00 - FREEKilling for a Living: 3 Crime Writers talk murder and mystery;Alex Barclay, Sam Blake and William Ryan in conversation with Des Breen

Alex Barclay is the author of eight crime novels, and a fantasy novel for children. Alex’s Blood Runs Cold won the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award at the Irish Book Awards in 2009.

Sam Blake is a pseudonym for Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin. Her debut novel, Little Bones spent eight weeks in the Irish top 10, with four weeks in the Number 1 slot.

William Ryan’s Captain Korolev Novels have been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year, The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, the Crime Writers Association's New Blood and Historical Daggers and the Irish Crime Novel of the Year (three times). William lectures on the Crime Writing Masters at City University in London.

All three writers were nominated for The Books Are My Bag Crime fiction Book of the Year in 2016.

Triskel Christchurch - 20:30-21:30 - €6 / €5 LITERATURE IN TRANSLATIONSlovenian writer Ales Steger’s novel Absolution is set in Maribor, the Slovenian European Capital of Culture 2012. A dramatist and a journalist pursue a secret mission: to track down and overthrow the sinister octopus of thirteen selected persons that seem to be in control. Their journey, in the end, proves to be a journey into the heart of a European darkness.

Turkish writer Ciler Ilan’s collection of short stories Exile won the author the European Prize for Literature, 2011. Dedicated to those who have been alienated from their homeland, from their families or from society, this extraordinary collection offers readers short, vivid glimpses into other worlds from a woman writing in modern day Turkey.

Both writers will give short readings from their work and will participate in a conversation about literature in translation together with their publisher, Susan Curtis-Kojakovic, founder of Istros Press. Discussion will be facilitated by journalist and Irish Times writer Eileen Battersby.

Denise Dunphy & Stano

Alannah Hopkins

Molly Keane

Colm Ó Ceallacháin

Anne Sebba

Ciler Ilan

Eileen Battersby

Ales Steger

William Ryan

Sam Blake

Alex Barclay

Ed O'Loughlin

Lisa Carey