Kildare Readers’ Festival 2024

The Kildare Readers’ Festival kicked off yesterday and will run until 16 October. The Irish Writers Centre is delighted to be associated with this annual festival where all events are free and its aim is to connect readers with authors and artists.

The festival programme has something for everyone, including regular favourite Ten Books You Should Read with social historian Catherine Corless and Abie Philbin Bowman. Sunday Sessions returns with Dermot Bolger, who this year is joined by acclaimed author Claire Kilroy and co-director of the Linenhall Arts Centre, Fiona Neary on the subject of family. The Revelation of Ireland with Diarmaid Ferriter and Reeling in the Queers with Anna Nolan and Páraic Kerrigan.

This year’s festival welcomes some of the most exciting new voices in Irish literature including Debut Voices with Niamh Mulvey and Maggie Armstrong in conversation with bestselling author and journalist Miriam Mulcahy, Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with Jackie Lynham, Words and Wonder: An Evening with Mike McCormack in conversation with Aingeala Flannery and Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Exploring Short Stories with Jan Carson in conversation with Olivia Fitzsimons. Naas Library & Cultural Centre will host the final event, an evening of music, poetry, literature and song with an Oíche Airneál sa Leabharlann.

Kildare Readers’ Festival is a celebration of the written word and a chance to connect with readers and writers alike.

The full programme of events can be found here
While all events are free, you must make a booking via RiverBank here