Granard Booktown Festival
April 21 - 23 2023
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2023 Official Programme Launched
The full lineup for the 2023 festival has been announced.
We are thrilled to announce the full lineup for this year's inaugural Granard Booktown Festival. Over three days, April 21 - 23, the festival will see a host of literary figures from Ireland and abroad converging on Granard to discuss their work and all things literature.
With some of the finest writers and advocates like Donal Ryan, Sinead Burke, Professor Tim Flannery and Sally Hayden attending this year's festival, audiences are in for a real treat.
There will also be several local writers in attendance, including Manchán Magan, Shelly Corcoran, Adrian Duncan Jr., Sean Columb and Seán Ó Súilleabháin, to name a few.
Tickets are now on sale from our box office in Knights and Conquest Centre in Granard Co. Longford and from our website here.
You can download the official programme here.
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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. ”