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Listowel Writers’ Week
Literary festival in Co Kerry
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh of Altan: ‘Music is like experiences you haven’t had before, and don’t have the words for’
Change characterises Altan’s sound since the aptly titled Donegal, says singer and fiddle player Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
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There’s still just time to catch Dublin Dance Festival, Cellissimo and International Literature Festival Dublin, which end this weekend
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Listowel Writers’ Week, the curator’s story: ‘It was an oppressive atmosphere’
Stephen Connolly says he experienced hostility and anti-Northern bias from people angry at changes to Kerry festival
Dara McAnulty makes Wainwright shortlist; new chair and director for Listowel Writers’ Week
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Aingeala Flannery and Tom French win literary awards at Listowel Writers’ Week
The Amusements wins Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award while Company wins Pigott Poetry Prize
Former Listowel festival chair ‘disappointed’ over controversy surrounding this year’s event
Ongoing turmoil surrounding Writers’ Week could have been avoided if heads were ‘knocked together’ says well-known poet Fitzmaurice
Jimmy Deenihan steps down from Listowel Writers’ Festival board
Former arts minister says decision not connected to recent controversy on disbanding of voluntary committee
A town divided: What’s going on at Listowel Writers’ Week?
Sadness and anger from some committee members at being ‘very arbitrarily dismissed’, while others say some volunteers ‘deemed more important than others’
Listowel Writers’ Week appoints curator for first time in 52 years
Appointment of curator follows controversy about leadership and governance of Ireland’s longest-running literary festival
Listowel Writers’ Week subject of growing row over proposal to disband volunteer committee
Committee to be replaced by professional curator following report members have yet to see
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