Granard Booktown Festival
April 19 - 21 2024
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John is a bestselling author and farmer. He is also the co-founder and director of the festival.

Vivian is a Social and Content Director with Folk Wunderman Thompson.

Ronan is the Co-Founder and Festival Director of the Still Voices Film Festival. He is also the co-founder and director of Granard Booktown Festival.

Uruemu is a Fianna Fail Councillor in Co. Longford. She was also the first female African Cathaoirleach in the country.

James is a proud disabled person and Policy Officer with Independent Living Movement Ireland. James was a teacher and has researched disability issues on a National and European level. He is also newly appointed to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Disability Advisory Committee. James is Chairperson of the European Anti-Poverty Network.

Belinda is the author of the novels Solace and Tender, which won and were nominated for awards including the Irish Book of the Year 2011 and the Encore Prize 2016. She has recently been appointed the lead of Maynooth University's MA in Creative Writing.

Turlough is a Granard native and local councillor. He is also the current Longford Cathaoirleach.
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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. ”