Kildare County Council is delighted to confirm that Kildare Readers Festival will return to venues across the county from Monday, 2nd October to Sunday, 8th October 2023.
Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
Saturday 7 Oct 2023 20:00 – 21:00
Riverbank Arts Centre, W12 D962
Join Katriona O’Sullivan and a guest for a discussion on Katriona’s book Poor. Poor is a memoir describing the impact of childhood poverty. Katriona’s story recounts her journey from poverty, teenage pregnancy, homelessness to graduating with a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and becoming an award-winning lecturer whose work challenges barriers to education. Poor is her stirring argument for the importance of giving hope, practical support and meaningful opportunities to children.
ISL/Irish Sign Language interpretation will be available for this event.
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Sunday Morning Session: Judith Mok & Michael O’Loughlin with Dermot Bolger
Sun 8 Oct 2023 10:30 – 11:30
Riverbank Arts Centre, W12 D962
Writer and soprano, Judith Mok was born in Holland and studied at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Her book The State of Dark is a moving, beautifully written memoir of a Second-Generation survivor.
Michael O’Loughlin was born in Dublin in 1958. He has lived in Barcelona (where he first met his wife, Judith Mok); in Amsterdam and, since 2002, has lived in Dublin. From the youthful collections which ushered in a new urban aesthetic in Irish poetry, to his later explorations of European history and identity, O’Loughlin has earned a reputation as one of Ireland’s most important poets.
ISL/Irish Sign Language interpretation will be available for this event.
Book your free ticket here.
Full Programme and Social Media
The full programme of events and participating venues for Kildare Readers Festival 2023 is available on https://www.kildarereadersfestival.ie and I will do more of these in-depth posts as we get closer to the festival.
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