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| Written by Staff Reporter | |
| Thursday, 28 February 2008 | |
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Hundreds of book-lovers from all over Ireland and abroad will descend on Ennis at the end of this month for the second Ennis Book Club Festival, which has added even more high profile names to its line-up.
The festival in the Clare capital from February 29 to March 2 will now include TV gardening personality Diarmuid Gavin; acclaimed US poet, Richard Tillinghast; critic and journalist, Fintan O’Toole; Irish language writer, Ré Ó Laighléis; poet Theo Dorgan, and playwright Vincent Woods. The three-day festival will also feature authors Roddy Doyle, Joanne Harris, Hugo Hamilton, Morgan Llywelyn, Dermot Bolger, Nuala O Faolain and Lorna Landvik. Neven Maguire, an award winning celebrity chef, will also attend. Ciana Campbell of the Ennis Book Club Festival Organising Committee described the upcoming festival as a “unique opportunity for book club members from Ireland and beyond to get together to share their joy of reading, to meet authors, to discuss books, and to have a weekend break with friends”. She added that non book club readers were also invited to come along and to find out how to establish a club in their own area. Other presentations will include ‘10 Books You Must Read’, a walking tour of the historic streets and buildings of Ennis and a talk by UL English lecturer Dr Michael Griffin on the 18th century Ennis poet Thomas Dermody. For more information, see www.ennisbookclubfestival.com, call 087-9723647 or 085- 7758523 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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