3 Days of Walks, Talks, Music, Food, Live Concerts, Poetry & Plants.
Entry to the island is free today for events. Visitors must buy a return ferry ticket
FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER
A Walk and Talk With Glyn Sherratt
11.30am • Starts at The Casita Lawn
Glyn Sheratt has been Head Gardener on Garinish Island since 2022. Glyn has managed gardens in the UK and abroad throughout his career and is a keen and passionate plants person. His walk will take you around the highlights of Garinish island bringing its history, wildlife and plants to life.
FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER
Wild Rose Basketry - Talk & Demonstration
12.30pm • The Casita Lawn
Rosemary Kavanagh is a basket maker and teacher from nearby Bantry. She gives courses and teaches through the Heritage In Schools program about the ancient art of basketmaking. She grows over 15 types of basketry willow, gifted from many teachers she has worked with over the years. Today Rosemary will give a talk and demonstration on traditional basket making.
FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER
Walking Tour - Music
1.30pm • Starts at The Casita Lawn
The Italian Garden, The Grecian Temple, The Martello Tower, The Bryce House.
Join us as we meander around the island listening to everything from Uileann Pipes to Dulcimers, Fiddles and Sean Nós singing.
David Murphy
David Murphy takes the pedal steel guitar outside the confines of its traditional roots with frequent ventures into a range of genres.
Sorcha de Róiste
Sorcha de Róiste, award-winning Sean-Nós singer, with one foot in the world of experimental composition.
Brian Leach
Brian Leach is a multi-instrumentalist whose music spans from traditional to experimental. Concentrating on Uilleann Pipes and Hammered Dulcimer, Brian is drawing music from ancient depths and launching it into the cosmos.
Eoin Stan O'Sullivan
Eoin Stan O’Sullivan has crafted a blend of Sliabh Luachra fiddle music and electric guitars, striking a balance between mountain music and desert blues.
Visitors to the island today must buy a return ferry ticket and pay fee entry to the island
SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER
Atlas Of The Irish Civil War
11.30am • The Casita Lawn
Dr John Borgonovo & Dr Donal Ó Drisceoil from UCC’s School of History are co-editors and writers of the newest Cork University press publication – ‘Atlas of the Irish Civil War’. This new volume of the award-winning Atlas Series presents fresh perspectives and an insightful understanding of the history of the Irish Civil War (1922-3). Michael Moynihan will speak to John and Donal about their new book, and the historical relevance of Cork in the civil war. Michael Moynihan is an assistant editor with the Irish Examiner, an author and a documentary maker.
SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER
Grub Circus - All At Sea
1.00pm • The Casita Lawn
Grub Circus Ringmaster/Irish Examiner Food Writer Joe McNamee (@jozeemac) hosts RAI Irish Chef of the Year Aishling Moore (@aishlingmoore), of Cork city’s renowned Goldie seafood restaurant, along with internationally renowned award-winning food producer and legend of the Irish food world, fish smoker Sally Barnes (@woodcocksmokery), of Woodcock Smokery, for a discussion on what truly constitutes sustainability when it comes to sourcing food from our rapidly deteriorating oceans. Nibbles of a maritime nature will also be served.
SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER
Walking Tour - Poetry
2.30pm • Starts at The Casita Lawn
The Italian Garden, The Grecian Temple, The Martello Tower, The Bryce House.
After the walk, Eoghan O’Sullivan will chat to the Poets at the Casita Lawn.
Victoria Kennefick
Victoria Kennefick’s debut collection, ‘Eat or We Both Starve’ (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award. She is the Cork County Council Writer-in-Residence 2024.
Julie Goo
Julie Goo is a bilingual poet, writer and singer, and has performed at festivals and conferences in Ireland and abroad for over a decade. Her first collection DÁNA was published by Coiscéim in 2021. An Individual Artist Bursary by Cork City Council was awarded to Goo in 2022 to enable the writing of her first English Language Collection.
Cormac Lally
Cormac Lally is one of Ireland’s top spoken-word artists. Originally from Tullamore, he moved to Skibbereen in 2015 with his family. His work is a mix of utter lies, hard truths, politics, and family life, dropped on the listener with cutting humour on a deep emotional level, delivered in a flowing rhythm.
Paul Casey
Paul Casey’s poems have most recently appeared in The Irish Times and Flare, and he is working on his third collection. ‘Virtual Tides’ was published by Salmon in 2016, which followed ‘Home More Or Less’ (Salmon, 2012) and a chapbook, ‘It’s Not All Bad’ (Heaventree, 2009). He edits the Unfinished Book of Poetry and promotes poetry in his role as director of Ó Bhéal.
Live Concert
CORMAC BEGLEY
SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER
GET THE HARBOUR QUEEN FERRY AT 6PM. CONCERT LASTS APPROXIMATELY 80mins
Live Concert
CORMAC BEGLEY
SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER
GET THE HARBOUR QUEEN FERRY AT 6PM. CONCERT LASTS APPROXIMATELY 80mins
Visitors to the island today must buy a return ferry ticket and pay fee entry to the island
SUNDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER
What Ireland Can Teach The World About Music
11.30am • The Casita Lawn
Toner Quinn is a musician, writer, editor, publisher and lecturer born in Galway. In February 2024, Toner published a collection of his writing on music, ‘What Ireland Can Teach the World About Music – and other essays’, described in the Irish Times as ‘a richly textured, all-embracing compendium … a formidable collection’. He chats to Eoghan O’Sullivan of the Point of Everything podcast about his latest book and writings.
SUNDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER
Marjorie Brennan In Conversation With Amy Jordan, Michelle Teahan & Michelle Dunne
12.45pm • The Casita Lawn
Amy Jordan
Amy Jordan, previously writing as Amy Cronin, is the author of the ‘Anna Clarke’ trilogy with Poolbeg Press. Her first police procedural crime thriller with HQ Stories/HarperCollins entitled ‘The Dark Hours’ will be published in early 2025.
Michelle Teahan
Michelle Teahan is a qualified Medical Scientist but her passion has always been writing stories. Her debut novel ‘Go Seek’ was shortlisted for the 2024 CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and her second novel, ‘Knock Knock’ is out now.
Michelle Dunne
Michelle Dunne is the author of four psychological thrillers, including ‘The Hotel Maid’ (Aug 24), ‘The Good Girl’ (March 24) and her Lindsey Ryan series, which is currently in development for TV (’While No One Is Watching’ & ‘The Invisible’).
Marjorie Brennan
Marjorie Brennan is an arts and features writer, and books columnist with the Irish Examiner.
SUNDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER
Walking Tour - Writers
2.00pm • Starts at The Casita Lawn
The Italian Garden, The Grecian Temple, The Martello Tower, The Bryce House.
Join us as we meander around the island listening to Writers.
After the walk, Eoghan O’Sullivan will chat to the Writers at the Casita Lawn.
Sinéad Gleeson
Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection ‘Constellations: Reflections from Life’ won Non- Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. She is the editor of four anthologies including ‘The Art of the Glimpse’ and ‘The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers’. Her novel, ‘Hagstone’, was published in April 2024.
Aoife Barry
Aoife Barry is the author of ‘Social Capital’, a book about social media that was nominated for an Irish Book Award in 2023. An arts journalist and Sunday Times columnist, she features regularly across national newspapers and on RTÉ radio.
Danny Denton
Danny Denton is a writer from Cork. He is the author of the novels ‘The Earlie King & ‘The Kid In Yellow’ and ‘All Along The Echo’. He lectures on writing at U.C.C and is a contributing editor to The Stinging Fly
Sarah Harte
Sarah Harte is a prize-winning author of short stories in Ireland and the UK. She won the Byran MacMahon short story prize and has been shortlisted or longlisted in the Bridport Prize, the Manchester Fiction Prize, The Fish Prize, and the Sean O’Faolain Prize.
Live Concert
LISA HANNIGAN
SUNDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER
GET THE HARBOUR QUEEN FERRY AT 6PM. CONCERT LASTS APPROXIMATELY 80mins
Live Concert
LISA HANNIGAN
SUNDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER
GET THE HARBOUR QUEEN FERRY AT 6PM. CONCERT LASTS APPROXIMATELY 80mins
