THURSDAY 17th October
Theatre: The BIG Interview, with Colum McCann
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Venue: Clew Bay Hotel
Time: 7.30pm
Cost: €15
To Book Tickets: call 09828088 or
To Book online: Westport Town Hall Theatre
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Awarding-winning author and international bestseller Colum McCann talks about his work and the love of storytelling that has inspired him. The author of Let the Great World Spin, TransAtlantic, Apeirogon, and, most recently, American Mother, provides insights into the people, places and experiences that have shaped his work.
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FRIDAY 18th October
Notes of Hope
Colum McCann & Colm Mac Con Iomaire
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Venue: Holy Trinity Church
Time: 6.00pm
Cost: €25
To Book: Clew Bay Hotel, 09828088 or online at Westport Town Hall
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Notes of Hope Master storytellers, author Colum McCann and composer and musician ColmMac Con Iomaire, take us on a magical and emotional journey through forging friendships in far-flung places, in what has been hailed as a “spellbinding” evening of words and music.
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SATURDAY 19th October
Tax, Drugs, Rock and Roll
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Venue: Yard Bar, Matt Molloys
Time: 11.45 am
Cost: €15
To Book: Clew Bay Hotel, 09828088 or online Westport Town Hall
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How Ireland was transmogrified from one big damp Craggy Island into Cool Hibernia, complete with tax-dodging rock stars, Boys in Green mania and U2’s favourite nightclub. Author Damian Corless regales us with tales of how Ireland re-invented itself.
Caution to the Wind
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Venue: Clew Bay Hotel
Time: 2pm
Cost: €15
To Book: Clew Bay Hotel 09828088 or online Westport Town Hall
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As a 13-year-old, Terry Prone had her first argument on TV, by her late teens she was a regular on the Late Late Show, and then fell in love with and married a priest. Terry went on to become one of the country’s foremost communications experts, write more than 20 books and found a successful business. She talks to Barbara Scully about the extraordinary life captured in her memoir.
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Politics, Power, War and Peace
with Diarmaid Ferriter, Lindsay Hilsum, Terry Prone
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Venue: Clew Bay Hotel
Time: 6pm
Cost: €15
To Book: Clew Bay Hotel 0982088 or online Westport Town Hall
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Everything you wanted to know about forthcoming elections but were too depressed to ask. With a hugely consequential US election just weeks away - and an Irish election not too far off either - a panel of experienced political pundits, Channel 4’s Foreign Editor Lindsey Hilsum, historian Diarmaid Ferriter, and commentator and communications expert Terry Prone chat about the current state of affairs.
SUNDAY 20th October
The Power of Poetry
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Venue: Clew Bay Hotel
Time: 12 noon
Cost: €15
To Book: Clew Bay Hotel, 09828088 or online Westport Town Hall
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In a time of war and strife, poets Geraldine Mitchell and Ger Reidy and
acclaimed war journalist Lindsey Hilsum consider what poetry offers as a guard against despair.
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The Story of Sophie
Senan Molony
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Venue: Clew Bay Hotel
Time: 2.00pm
Cost: €15
To Book: Clew Bay Hotel, 09828088 or online Westport Town Hall
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TV dramas, radio documentaries, podcasts, books, and newsprint - the murder of Frenchwoman Sophie Toscan du Plantier has gripped and divided Ireland for almost three decades. Award-winning journalist Senan Molony was the first national crime correspondent on the scene in December 1996 and will discuss new evidence he uncovered for his book, Sophie: The Final Verdict.
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