People of Tipp Invited to Féile Bríde Online Event
Posted by newsdesk1 on February 2, 2021 · Leave a Comment
The start of February is traditionally a time of new hope and possibility. The ancient celebration of Imbolc, starting on Brigid’s Day, ushers in brighter days to come. For almost 30 years Irish peace and justice organisation Afri has been celebrating this time at the annual Féile Bríde event in Kildare. The event goes online […]
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North Tipp Author’s Centenary Book Launch
Posted by newsdesk1 on June 13, 2019 · Leave a Comment
North Tipp author Brendan Lynch last week (June 5) launched his new book, Yesterday We Were in America, to commemorate this year’s centenary of the first 1919 Atlantic flight. The book details the tribulations of Manchester men John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, who flew their open-cockpit Vimy plane from St. John’s, Newfoundland to Connemara […]
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Imagining the Future: A conversation with publisher and author Sarah Davis-Goff Cloughjordan Saturday 18 May
Posted by newsdesk1 on May 9, 2019 · Leave a Comment
On Saturday, 18 May at 8pm, Sheelagh na Gig bookshop in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary welcomes innovative publisher and author Sarah Davis-Goff for a conversation on imagining the future. Sarah Davis-Goff began her publishing career with Lilliput Press, where she was an advocate for publishing Donal Ryan’s first novel. A Spinning Heart went on to win […]
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Irish actor, author and journalist, Domhnall O’Donoghue has released his second novel
Posted by newsdesk1 on February 19, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Irish actor, author and journalist, Domhnall O’Donoghue has released his second novel. Domhnall’s hometown, Navan, provides the setting for Colin and the Concubine – a light-hearted farce about sibling rivalry that hilariously captures Ireland’s relationship with the Eurovision, the Late Late Show and the Housewife of the Year. In the book, Colin Saint James hates […]
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Can a born and bred townie who falls in love with a farmer learn to live with the realities of the farming life?
Posted by newsdesk1 on September 27, 2018 · Leave a Comment
‘I was hooked from page one. Hilarious, evocative, poignant, perceptive and beautifully written, it will strike a chord with every reader. I LOVED it!’ – Patricia Scanlan After living in California for close to a decade, Maura McElone ‘unemigrated’ to Ireland. After a few disastrous experiences with online dating, she met and fell with love […]
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Filmmaker And Illustrator, Cethan Leahy Wins Mercier Press Fiction Competition
Posted by newsdesk1 on July 11, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Ireland’s oldest independent publishing house, Mercier Press has announced the winner of their fiction competition. Cork author, Cethan Leahy, has won the competition for his young adult novel Tuesdays are Just as Bad. Obviously thrilled with his achievement, Cethan said ‘I still can’t believe I have won the Mercier Press Fiction Competition. It’s genuinely a dream […]
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New Book ‘The Curse of the USS Annie Oakley’ – Q and A with author Joe Terry
Posted by Tipp Tatler on June 12, 2015 · Leave a Comment
A new book by Author Joe Terry, ‘The Curse of the USS Annie Oakley’ is being launched in Cork City Library on 18th June at 7pm. We feature a Q and A session with the author below the description. On learning of the assassination of his godfather, President John F Kennedy, Boston College undergraduate DANIEL […]
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North Tipperary Author Unveils Patrick Kavanagh Plaque in Dublin
Posted by newsdesk1 on November 5, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Toomevara author Brendan Lynch last weekend (November 1) unveiled a blue plaque in Dublin to poet Patrick Kavanagh. The plaque is on 51 Upper Drumcondra Road, to which the poet moved from London in August 1939. Peter MacDonnell of the Monaghan Association said ‘Brendan was chosen because of his immense efforts to chronicle literary Dublin, […]
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Author and Investor John McGuire to speak at Network North Tipperary Event
Posted by newsdesk1 on April 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
North Tipperary Network hosts investor and author John McGuire at their next event on Tuesday, 17th April. It will be held in theAbbeyCourtHotel, Nenagh at 7:30pm. John is the author of Sorted! How to Survive and Thrive When Money is Tight and is managing director of FirstCredit.ie, chairman of Pembrokeinsurance.ie and chief executive of an […]
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North Tipperary Author’s New Book First To Celebrate Unesco Award
Posted by Tipp Tatler on November 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment
North Tipp author Brendan Lynch has published the first book to celebrate Dublin’s UNESCO City of Literature award, PRODIGALS AND GENIUSES. The Writers and Artists of Dublin’s Baggotonia. It will be launched by Arts Minister Jimmy Deenihan in Dublin on Novermber 15. Foreword writer J. P. Donleavy said; “All the writers are here from Samuel […]
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