Granard Booktown Festival
April 21 - 23 2023
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Cancelled | Emma Dabiri in conversation with Rick O' Shea
Please Note: This event has been cancelled.
Join acclaimed author, TV presenter and academic Emma Dabiri as she sits down with RTE's Rick O Shea to delve into her work, including Don't Touch my hair and What White People Can Do Next. Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian academic, broadcaster and bestselling author. She is the author of two highly acclaimed books and has fronted numerous documentaries, including Hair Power (2020) for Channel 4, which won the Cannes Lion Silver award for entertainment.
She co-presents Britain’s Lost Masterpieces on BBC 4 and has appeared on Newsnight and Have I Got News for You as well as hosting BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review and Front Row. Dabiri is currently working on another book and writing a one-woman play called Throwing Shapes which opens in Dublin in October and at the Soho Theatre in January 2024. This event will take place on April 23rd at 3:30 pm in Granard Library, with tickets going on sale from March 28th via our website and box office in Granard.
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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.

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.

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.

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