Granard Booktown Festival
April 21 - 23 2023
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Mark Tighe in conversation with Rick O' Shea
Champagne Football writer Mark Tighe to attend Granard Booktown.
In addition to our original programme, we are thrilled to announce that award-winning journalist and writer Mark Tighe will join us at the festival this year. This event will be in Granard Library on April 23rd at 3:30 pm. Mark will sit down with Rick O'Shea to discuss his award-winning book Champagne Football, where he and Paul Rowan exposed years of financial mismanagement within the FAI.
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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. ”