Literary Festival

We are delighted to invite you to the launch of the Limerick Literary Festival in Honour of Kate O’Brien. Novelist Dan Mooney will launch the programme for The Limerick Literary Festival at 5.00pm on Wednesday January 24th in O’Mahony’s Bookshop, Limerick.   The Festival will run in Limerick February 23rd, 24th and 25th at the Dooradoyle Library and Belltable. The event continues to honour the life and works of the Limerick author, Kate O’Brien, while attracting prominent participants from all over the world. The Limerick Literary Festival is this year celebrating its 40th anniversary alongside the 50th anniversary of the death of O’Brien. It originally started as The Kate O’Brien Weekend in 1984 to mark the tenth anniversary of her death.  We continue to celebrate the leg...