Poésie et Prose

Opening with a performance based on Patrick Kavanagh’s classic poem The Great Hunger, this year’s Poésie and Prose literary festival includes the premiere of a new documentary film, a book launch and readings by French and Irish writers.

The Great Hunger One-man-show de Peter Duffy, after the poem by Patrick Kavanagh

Rencontre litteraire: poets Leontia Flynn, Iggy-mcgovern et Lucy Caldwell

L’Irlande de Roddy Doyle, Robert McLiam Wilson, Edna O’Brien and Colm Tóibín in the presence of writer and director Mathilde Damoisel

Rencontre littéraire: poet Katie Donovan, author Martin Page and historian Turtle Bunbury

Image : Patrick Kavanagh ©The Wiltshire Collection courtesy of the National Library of Ireland