Our festival started in 1985. This will be the 28th September in 2012. It is one of the five largest events in the world of poetry, and one of the best organised. More than 100 poets from the 5 continents have participated every year since 1989. The city of Trois Rivieres …
14 April 2011: Anne Hartigan and Patrick Mason
Thursday 14 April 2011 Award winning poet and Playwright Anne Hartigan in conversation with Patrick Mason, Tony Award winning director at the Abbey Theatre. Where: United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 When: 8:00 – 9:30 pm Fee: All events are €3 for members, non members welcome €5 Booking is …
March 11th: Insights into Non-fiction publising
Irish PEN presents: A Fact-Finding Mission: Insights into the World of Non-Fiction publishing. Was Dickens’s Thomas Gradgrind secretly the first non-fiction commissioning editor, when he exclaimed: ‘Now, what I want is, Facts…. stick to Facts, Sir!’? Or did he just have a healthy respect for the breadth and wondrous world of …



