![]() Noreen O’Grady brings yoga to the Festival Dome on Saturday morning and best-selling cookbook author Sarah Butler will share her recipes and writing at the same venue. This seminar will also feature a display of rare Civil War items from the Jackie Clarke Collection. The seminar will be opened by retired Vice-Admiral Mark Mellett, DSM, and the moderator will be Marie Louise O’Donnell. On Sunday evening, Tommie Gorman launches his autobiography, ‘Never Better’.Ī major highlight will be the Civil War seminar on Saturday, hosted by Mayo County Council at the Courthouse, where the panel of expert guests includes Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor Linda Connolly, historian and author Dominic Price, EamonÓ Cuív TD, and former Minister for Justice Nora Owen. On Friday, Paul Brady, one of Ireland’s greatest living songwriters, will launch his ‘Crazy Dreams’, and then on Saturday evening, Liam Horan will introduce his collection of short stories in ‘Second Chance’. Noel Campbell and John Healy will share the spotlight on Thursday night when their ‘The History of Castlebar’ will be officially launched. On Tuesday Geraldine Lavelle, whose life was turned upside down when an horrific road accident left three-quarters of her body paralysed launches her new book, ‘Weathering the Storm’ This will be followed by a talk by Michael Smith, biographer of the legendary Polar explorer, Tom Crean. Now in its sixth year, Wild Atlantic Words is a programme of book launches, presentations, poetry, seminars, discussion and literary events of multiple descriptions.ĭr Michael O’Connor’s opening lecture, ‘Criminal Conversations with My Wife’, with its actual case studies of the treatment of women by the legal system, will shed light on an aspect of judicial history which has long been overlooked. The opening of the Wild Atlantic Words Festival in Castlebar takes place a week from today, Monday, 3 October.
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