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Padraig Regan Delicious With Stephen Connolly & Manuela Moser Crescent Arts Centre Friday 17 June – 4pm Tickets: Free Poetry from Padraig Regan; food from The Lifeboat. In March of this year The Lifeboat published Delicious, a debut pamphlet of poems by Padraig Regan. The pamphlet’s nineteen poems include a wide variety of cheeses, breads, fruit and vegetables: Savoy cabbage, melons, a breakfast of apples, Peach Melba, Roqueforte, to name just a few. Padraig will read from the pamphlet and this late afternoon event will be accompanied by a selection of freshly-made food from the duo behind The Lifeboat, Stephen Connolly and Manuela Moser. The Long Gaze Back The Business Of Books An Insider Guide Kevin Smith Sinéad Gleeson, Bernie McGill, E.M.Reapy With Publishing Ireland With Colin Dardis Crescent Arts Centre Friday 17 June –5pm Tickets: £6/£4 Crescent Arts Centre Friday 17 June – 6pm Tickets: Free Crescent Arts Centre Friday 17 June – 7pm Tickets: £6/£4 The Long Gaze Back, edited by Sinéad Gleeson, is an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers this island has ever produced. How does an idea that forms in an author’s mind end up as the book? The processes of book publishing are a mystery to most – and that’s why Publishing Ireland are thrilled to announce ‘The Business of Books: An Insider Guide’. On June 17th a panel comprising some of the best and brightest of the literary world will be answering all the questions you haven’t even thought of yet. This is your chance to learn everything about the business of books – from publishing and bookselling, to promotion and media. Panel members include Ruth Hegarty –publisher with the RIA, Patsy Horton –publisher with Blackstaff Press, journalist Freya McClements, and Alison Allen of Easons, with more to be announced. Gentlemen,’ Fitzmaurice’s eyes gleamed and he revealed many teeth, ‘lace up your stoutest boots and pack your warmest underwear. We’re all off to the bloody Arctic!’ Niamh Boyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Maeve Brennan, Mary Costello, June Caldwell, Lucy Caldwell, Evelyn Conlon, Anne Devlin, Maria Edgeworth, Anne Enright, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Norah Hoult, Mary Lavin, Eimear McBride, Molly McCloskey, Bernie McGill, Lisa McInerney, Belinda McKeon, Siobhán Mannion, Lia Mills, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Kate O’Brien, Roisín O’Donnell, E.M. Reapy, Charlotte Riddell, Eimear Ryan, Anakana Schofield, Somerville & Ross, Susan Stairs. Sinéad Gleeson is a writer, broadcaster, critic who presents The Book Show on RTE Radio 1. Bernie McGill is the author of Sleepwalkers, a collection of stories short-listed in 2014 for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize,. E.M. Reapy represented Ireland and was listed for the PEN International: New Voices Award. 52 The event aims to celebrate Irish publishing and literature, from North and South. The expert panel will discuss the recent highs of publishing and bookselling, and the differences in the industry in the different parts of the island. The Voyage Of The Dolphin It is Dublin in the spring of 1916: while war rages across Europe and rebellion threatens the Irish capital, three young College friends embark on a foolhardy seafaring mission to find the lost skeleton of an Irish giant. With mishaps, mischief, and a little romance, their voyage is a hilarious odyssey round the edges of history and into a curious adventure that will change their lives forever. Ernest Shackleton meets P.G.Wodehouse in this heart-warming tale of three men in a ship (to say nothing of a dog, a foulmouthed Scotsman and an iguana…) Kevin Smith was born in London and grew up in Northern Ireland. A former journalist, he worked for a number of years as a foreign correspondent in Eastern Europe. In partnership with Creative Centenaries 53