Description: The Limerick Literary Festival in Honour of Kate O'Brien celebrates the life and works of the Limerick author, while attracting prominent participants from home and abroad.
I want to thank you for the huge treat it was to be at the Festival, so buzzing with life, conversation, hospitality and above all the treat of having such terrific readers in the audience. I have never before experienced listeners so quick to understand a book. I felt amongst kindred spirits.
The Limerick Literary Festival was such a rich, yet also wonderfully intimate, weekend. I participated in a busy event which provided me with a unique opportunity to challenge readers, and I was thoroughly honoured to receive the Kate O'Brien Award - such an important, encouraging accolade for a writer at the outset of her career.
The festival, formerly known as The Kate O’Brien Weekend, will be celebrating it’s 4oth anniversary in 2024. Beginning in 1984 to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Limerick-born writer Kate O’Brien, the festival continues to honour the life and works of the author while attracting prominent participants from home and abroad.