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Granard Booktown Festival

April 21 - 23 2023


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Special Guest - Mark Tighe
Ronan O' Toole | 01 April | 2023
Author of the Award-Winning Champagne Football Mark Tighe joins Granard Booktown 2023.
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Notice - Event Cancelled
Ronan O' Toole | 31 March | 2023
Please note - Emma Dabiri in conversation with Rick O'Shea has been cancelled.
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Notice - Change of Dates
Ronan O' Toole | 28 February | 2023
Please note - Donal Ryan and Sinéad Burke event dates have changed.
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Official Programme Launched
Ronan O' Toole | 25 February | 2023
The full line up has been announced for this year's festival.
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Special Guest - David and Adam King
Ronan O' Toole | 24 February | 2023
We are thrilled to announce that children's author David King and his son Adam will be joining us at Granard Booktown 2023.
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Special Guest - Sinéad Burke
Ronan O' Toole | 20 February | 2023
We are thrilled to announce that writer, advocate and fashion icon Sinéad Burke will attend Granard Booktown 2023.
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Special Guest - Donal Ryan
Ronan O' Toole | 17 February | 2023
Granard Booktown is delighted to announce Donal Ryan will close the 2023 festival.
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emma dabiri
Special Guest - Emma Dabiri
Ronan O' Toole | 13 February | 2023
Granard Booktown is delighted to announce Emma Dabiri in conversation with Rick O'Shea.
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tim flannery
Special Guest - Tim Flannery
Ronan O' Toole | 06 February | 2023
Granard Booktown is delighted to announce its first guest speaker, Professor Tim Flannery.
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Meet the Booktown Team
Ronan O' Toole | 13 September
Granard Booktown is run by a diverse group of people from across County Longford.
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Patrons Announced
Ronan O' Toole | 13 September
The festival has attracted significant literary figures from Ireland and abroad as patrons.
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Granard Booktown Launched
Ronan O' Toole | 13 September
Granard Booktown Festival officially launched, will take place from April 21-23, 2023.
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image of mark tighe leaning against a tree
Special Guest - Mark Tighe
Ronan O' Toole | 01 April | 2023
Author of the Award-Winning Champagne Football Mark Tighe joins Granard Booktown 2023.
Read More
image of emma dabiri in front of a bookshelf
Notice - Event Cancelled
Ronan O' Toole | 31 March | 2023
Please note - Emma Dabiri in conversation with Rick O'Shea has been cancelled.
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Official Programme Launched
Ronan O' Toole | 25 February | 2023
The full line up has been announced for this year's festival.
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Our Patrons

Granard Booktown is supported by our wonderful patrons, who will help shape the festival going forward.
shaunagh connaire

Shaunagh is the Director of Communications and Media at the Clooney Foundation. She was nominated for an Emmy award and won a duPont-Columbia award.

Shaunagh Connaire
rick o shea

Rick is an RTE Broadcaster, Book Pusher and Event Host. He runs The Rick O’Shea Book Club – Ireland’s largest book club with almost 40,000 members.

Rick O' Shea
mary reynolds

Mary is the former Longford County Librarian and Head of Creative Ireland Longford. She has a long history of supporting both the arts and literature across the county.

Mary Carleton Reynolds

Richard is a Man Booker Prize Winning Author and widely considered “the finest Australian novelist of his generation. ”

Richard Flanagan

"As a child of Longford (Tasmania) where my Irish forebears were sent as convicts during the Famine, I feel an odd affinity with Longford (Ireland). I know the affirmative and sometimes transformative power of small places dreaming themselves anew and so I was delighted to be asked to be a patron of the Granard Booktown Festival. One word follows another and in this way sentences, novels and new worlds are made and so I hope too with this festival and the town it celebrates."

Richard Flanagan

"Longford is a place brimming with talented authors and journalists. It’s a place that churns out great literature and deserves the limelight. I’m not only honoured to be a patron of Ireland’s first Book Town due to take place in my home county but also deeply humbled I get to be part of something so creative in the place I found my personal love of books and writing."

Shaunagh Connaire

"I couldn't have been more thrilled when I was asked to be one of the Patrons for a brand-new festival and the inauguration of Granard as a Book Town. It's a place that's perfect for a new project like this and, in the heartland of what is already a thriving arts scene in Longford, I'm certain it's going to become one of the annual highlights of the calendar. There are already some amazing local, national, and international guests lined up. See you there on the weekend!"

Rick O' Shea

""I am delighted and honoured to have been invited to support this exciting new initiative. Granard is a town steeped in a rich literary and musical tradition. It was home to the first Harp festival in Ireland and the acclaimed Irish writers Padraic Colum, Noel Monahan and John Connell have all drawn inspiration from its beautiful natural landscape and wonderful people. It is an ideal venue to start a new book festival celebrating great writing and sharing stories to as wide an audience as possible as well as championing new and emerging talent.""

Mary Reynolds


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Call Us
(043) 668 6164
Address
Granard, Co. Longford
Email
granardbooktown[at]gmail.com