Award-winning Author & Journalist Rosita Boland set to host for Immrama Festival Literary Breakfast
The 2019 Immrama Festival of Travel Writing in Lismore County Waterford is set to host senior features writer and author Rosita Boland for the festivals annual Literary Breakfast. Rosita Boland is Senior Features Writer, specialising in human interest stories. She was a 2009 Nieman Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. She’s […]
Presenter of BBC Programme Coast set to travel to the 2019 Immrama Festival of Travel Writing
The Scottish archaeologist, writer, broadcaster and historian has been almost omnipresent, fronting shows such as A History of Scotland and Coast is set to host a keynote address at the 2019 Immrama Festival of Travel Writing in Lismore County Waterford on June 15th. During his 20 years travelling to every corner, and whilst filming BBC2’s […]
Immrama Competition aims to discover Best Young Travel Writers in Tipperary
A writing competition aimed at discovering Ireland’s best young travel writers has been announced by the organiser’s of the Immrama Festival of Travel Writing, which is set to take place in the heritage town of Lismore in County Waterford this June 12th to 16th 2019. Young writers are now invited to enter the fourth […]
Students Invited To Take Part In Young Travel Writers Competition
A writing competition aimed at discovering Ireland’s best young travel writers has been announced by the organiser’s of the Immrama Festival of Travel Writing, which is set to take place in the heritage town of Lismore in County Waterford this June 13th to 17th 2018. Young writers are now invited to write an 800-word […]
Lismore Castle Farm Silage Exhibition 2017
The Silage Exhibition 2017 will be taking place at Lismore Castle Farm, Lismore, Co. Waterford on Sunday 23rd July. The Exhibition will feature Vintage Silage Cutting, a Vintage Show, The Ford 100 Year Celebration, An Artisan Food Village and family entertainment. There will also be the Tractor Pulling Championship with entertainment by Seamus Moore ‘the JCB […]
Award Winning Irish Travel Films To Feature At Immrama Festival
An exploration of travel and tales of travel will be told at the fifteenth annual Lismore Immrama Festival of Travel Writing this June 14th to 18th in county Waterford. Opening the festival will be the screening of two award winning travel documentary films produced by Paddy Hayes. Mongolian Rhapsody and Jamaican Rhapsody are a […]
Young Travel Writers Competition Opens to Students Across Ireland
A writing competition aimed at discovering Ireland’s best young travel writers has been announced by the organiser’s of the Immrama Festival of Travel Writing, which is set to take place in the heritage town of Lismore in county Waterford this June. Young writers are now invited to write an 800-word short story about their […]
Terry Waite CBE and Colm Tóibín set for Lismore for Immrama Festival of Travel Writing 2017
Multi award winning author Colm Tóibín, humanitarian and author Terry Waite CBE, journalist and author Des Ekin, writer and documentary maker Tom Feiling and adventurer and author Andre P. Sykes are some of the world-renowned writers who are about to set their compass for Lismore in County Waterford this June 15th to 18th for the […]
Kim Phuc Phan Thi and Fergal Keane announced as Keynote speakers for Lismore Immrama Festival of Travel Writing 2016
Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the nine-year-old child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972 Kim Phuc Phan Thi along with one of the BBC’s most distinguished correspondents and award-winning broadcaster and author Fergal Keane have been announced as the keynote speakers for the 14th annual Immrama Festival […]