Tipperary Writer Receives Eason Novel Of The Year Award At An Post Irish Book Awards 2024

Tipperary native Donal Ryan has been awarded the prestigious An Post Eason Novel of the Year award for his latest work ‘Heart Be At Peace’.   The characters in this novel have been brought forward from his 2012 bestselling novel ‘The Spinning Heart’ however this novel can both be read alone or as a sequel. […]

World Premiere – From A Low & Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan

We are so excited at Nenagh Arts Centre to have the WORLD PREMIERE of Decadent Theatre’s From a Low and Quiet Sea, adapted for the stage from Donal Ryan’s acclaimed novel, on Wednesday 6th, Thursday 7th & Friday 8th July at 8pm. The original adaptation of Donal Ryan’s Booker Prize nominated novel is a collaboration […]

Expanded Dromineer Nenagh Literary Festival Attracts Celebrity Authors To Nenagh

International award winning authors Joseph O’Connor and local success Donal Ryan are among the celebrity authors who will be attending this year’s Dromineer Nenagh Literary Festival to be held in venues in the town and lakeside village over the first week of October. The festival, expanded this year to six days, will be the biggest […]

Multi-Award-Winning Author Donal Ryan Joins UL

Donal Ryan, multiple-award winning author of ‘The Spinning Heart’ (Irish Book of the Decade) has been appointed by the University of Limerick as a Lecturer in Creative Writing. He joins a programme led by acclaimed novelist and Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing, Joseph O’Connor, featuring celebrated authors and fellow teachers Giles Foden and Sarah […]

Free Seminars On Equine Genetics To Be Held In Tipperary

Plusvital (www.plusvital.com), the Irish equine science company which last year merged with Equinome, the University College Dublin equine genetics company, announced that it will run a series of free evening seminars on equine genetics. Three seminars will take place in the UK (Newbury, Newmarket and Yorkshire) from 18 to 20 October, while two seminars will […]

Celebrate Bealtaine 2016 at The Source Arts Centre Thurles

This year is Bealtaine Festival’s 21st birthday. During May, all over the country Bealtaine events are running in arts centres, theatres, libraries, galleries, community centres, local halls, care settings, cultural spaces and even out in the open air. The Source Arts Centre has two free events mid-May that are worth marking in the diary.   […]