Bealtaine At Home, and the art of In(ter)dependence
Updated / Tuesday, 27 Apr 2021
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Age & Opportunity s Tara Byrne, Arts Programme Manager and Bealtaine Festival Artistic Director, introduces this year s installment of Ireland s national celebration of the arts and creativity as we age. which runs throughout May.
Do you want to get involved in one of Ireland s largest festivals? Do you want to laugh, be intrigued and maybe challenged out of your comfort zone? And finally, do you want to meet (albeit virtually) like-minded people by attending Ireland’s only festival that celebrates the arts and creativity as we age? Get thee to the Bealtaine Festival 2021!
Bloomsbury Publishing
We discussed two books over the past six months, each from a different genre and offering unique perspectives. (We try to rotate our selections among biography, fiction, nonfiction and poetry.) First we explored a brand-new literary/historical analysis by Peter Manseau,
The Jefferson Bible; more recently we have been discussing a 2019 novel by Irish writer Niall Williams,
This Is Happiness. Our Catholic Book Club moderator, Kevin Spinale, S.J., offered interpretive essays on both books and included questions for discussion. Our Facebook page continues to be the gathering place where our Catholic Book Club members discuss each book.
Clare Reads chose to promote Niall Williams‘
This is Happiness last month.
This reading initiative was part of the
Ireland Reads campaign and Clare County Council’s Keep Well Campaign. Over 500 books were distributed for free in County Clare in February and this programme of events will support the reading and further explore the themes of the book.
Extracts from the book will be read each night at 9pm on Clare FM starting on the 1st of March for two weeks. Many are finding it difficult to read a book at the moment so it was important that people had the opportunity to access it in a variety of ways. It will also be podcasted on the Clare FM website.
Full programme for 15th Ennis Book Club Festival launched
THE full programme for the 15th Ennis Book Club Festival was announced this week. This year’s festival will be a hybrid of online events in March with live events taking place in April and September. As always Ennis Book Club Festival 2021 will offer opportunities to engage with favourite authors and features an additional programme of events for younger readers.
While the festival cannot welcome book lovers to Ennis this March as ever, it will provide plenty of events to stimulate discussion and inspire reading, from the comfort of the couch.