Festival Programme
Please check below for date, venue and time of shows. You can find out more
about the contributors by clicking the links provided below.
| Date | Time | Venue | Event |
| March 18 |
18.30 | Greyfriars Municipal Gallery. |
Opening of Exhibition: Posters and Graphic Images based around Seán Dunne’s themes. Special Guest: Writer & Poet Dennis Collins |
| March 19 | 10.30 | Central Library, Reference Room |
Short story writing workshop for teenagers with Ré Ó Laighléis |
| 11.00 | Central Library, Children's Library. |
Teri Flynn reads to school groups from her forthcoming book The Adventures of William Wood the Fourth. |
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| 11.00 |
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Admission : Free |
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| 13.00 |
Central Library, |
Paul Carson reads from his best selling crime novels. |
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| 19.30 |
City Hall, |
Official Opening of the Festival by Mayor of Waterford Councillor Jack Walsh and presentation of the Sean Dunne Young Writers' Awards. Keynote speech by Celine Kiernan. |
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| 21.00 |
Tower Hotel, |
Tramore Writers Group read from their forthcoming book Ferry Tales . |
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| 22.00 |
Tower Hotel, |
Open Mic |
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| March 20 |
10.30 |
Central Library, Reference Room. |
Siobhan Parkinson , award winning childrens' writer reads from her work to school groups. |
| 10.30 |
Central Library, |
Celine Kiernan, author of the Moorhawk Trilogy. reads from her work to school groups. |
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| 14.30 | Central Library, Reference Room. |
Sticky Orchard reunited: Jim O'Donnell, Teri Flynn and Anthony O'Neill read from their poetry. |
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| 15.30 |
Central Library , Reference Room |
Declan Lynch reads from his work , including the new Free Money. |
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| 17.00 | Greyfriars Gallery |
Poets Macdara Woods , Conor O'Callaghan and Anthony Healy read from their work. |
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| 18.30 | Greyfriars Gallery | Anthony Healy launches his latest book of poetry The Sand Reckoner | |
| 19.30* |
Tower Hotel, |
From the Back Pages to the Hard Cover- the growth of literary sports writing. A lively deabte and question and answer session with Conor O'Callaghan, Eamon Carr, Ulick O'Connor and Declan Lynch , chaired by Matt Keane of WLRfm. |
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| 21.30* |
Tower Hotel, |
An evening with A.L. Kennedy- Comic and award winning writer A.L. Kennedy talks about her work , being a writer and why she would rather be somone else! |
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| March 21 | 9.30 |
Tower Hotel, Dunmore Room. |
Literary Breakfast with Peter Cunningham and Ellen McCarthy - enjoy a full Irish breakfast and hear the latest from two of Waterfords best selling authors. |
| 11.30 |
Scoil Lorcain , |
Celebrate: readings of Sean Dunne's work by Festival poets, friends and family |
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| 14.00 |
Tower Hotel, |
Poetry Masterclass with Conor O'Callaghan |
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| 14.00 |
Creative Writing Masterclass with A.L. Kennedy |
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| 14.30 |
Waterford Youth Arts,The Arch, Barrack Street. |
Young Writers Read: New writing from teenage Waterford. |
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| 17.00 |
Central Library, |
Escaping the Rat Race- Michael Kelly reads from his work , and lets us in on his sectrets of sustainability. |
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| 18.00 | Central Library , Reference Room |
The Future of Print Journalism - are we seeing the death of the newspaper as we know it? Journailist Anthony Healy talks about the changes that are happening in the worls of print journalism. |
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| 19.30* |
Tower Hotel, |
Tom Paulin reads from his poetry with an introduction by Conor O'Callaghan |
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| 21.00* | Tower Hotel, Dunmore Room |
Late Night with Eamon Carr, Richie Buckley and Hugh Buckley- Performacne poetry from Eamon Carr accompanied by Richie Buckley on sax and Hugh Buckley on guitar, support by Californain performance poet Raven. |
City Hall, The Mall, Waterford
How to get there...
Travelling from north of Waterford
Cross over bridge – turning left. Travel down Quay past the Clock Tower, numerous carparks and a white-tented stage (the Millenium Plaza) on your left. Follow the road around The Tower Hotel staying in the right-hand lane. Find parking after the traffic lights. City Hall is on your right.
Travelling from south of Waterford
Stay on main road as if heading for the Quays. City Hall is just after the Theatre Royal on your left-hand-side.
Greyfriars' Municipal Gallery, Greyfriars St., Waterford
Greyfriars is the main venue for the Seán Dunne Writers' Festival. It features an exhibition by W.I.T. Design students based on the poems of Seán Dunne.
The Gallery is open during the festival at the following times:
Tuesday evening 7pm – exhibition opening (All Welcome)
Wednesday – Friday: 11am – 5pm.
Saturday & Sunday: 10.30am – 1pm and 2pm – 5pm (depending on finishing time of last author).
How to get to Greyfriars Municipal Gallery
Travelling from north of Waterford
Cross over bridge – turning left. Travel down Quay past the Clock Tower and numerous carparks and a white-tented stage (the Millenium Plaza) on your left. Look to your right and you will see a “Conquer Cancer” shop on the corner of “Greyfriars St." The Gallery is in a church halfway up that street on your left.
For Parking, the Quay is the best.
Travelling from south of Waterford
Stay on main road and head for the Quay. You will turn left around Reginald’s Tower. You will pass a small lane on your left (Bailey’s New Street) and it is the next turn on your left. “Greyfriars St." The Gallery is in a church halfway up that street on your left.