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See you on Friday 19 Sept at 5pm for a FREE Culture Night event in #BantryLibrary with author Anya Bergman. Anya will discuss her new novel The Tarot Reader of Versailles with @oonaghmontague.bsky.social. Join our Bantry Culture Trail of music, books agus caint
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Photo of author Anya Bergman. Front cover of the novel The Tarot Reader of Versailles. Culture Night logo
September 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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5pm today: Free event at #BantryLibrary with author & marine biologist @helenscales.bsky.social. She'll be in conversation with Siobhan Cronin about her @wainwrightprize.bsky.social nominated book What The Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean 🌊🐠🪼🪸
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Book cover of Helen Scales' What The Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean. Longlisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing
July 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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The annual launch of Cork County Council's From the Well short story anthology will take place on Friday 18 July in #BantryLibrary. Free event, all welcome
@hollowaywriter.bsky.social
www.corkindependent.com/2025/07/10/t...
There is a bucket full of talent from the well | Cork Independent
A short story anthology published annually in Cork has reached a major milestone.
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July 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Excellent interview with Raphael Olympio on Cork's 96FM Opinion Line @pjcoogan.bsky.social this morning. He will perform as part of @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Word On The Street spoken word event in #BantryLibrary for WCLF on Tues 15 July. Free event. All welcome
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From Togo To Togher Raphael Is Healing Through Hurleys & Poetry | Cork's 96fm Opinion Line
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July 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Ross Raisin won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2024 for his story Ghost Kitchen and he'll chatting about it in a #FreeEvent alongside Paul McVeigh at WCLF on Thursday 17 July in #BantryLibrary. You can listen to Ross' award-winning story on ‪BBC Sounds
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Short Story - NSSA 2024 - Ghost Kitchen by Ross Raisin - BBC Sounds
The fifth of the five shortlisted stories for the 2024 BBC National Short Story Award
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July 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The Scrapbook is such a great read! Published in July just in time for @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social's visit to WCLF on 12 July #FreeEvent #BantryLibrary @jonathancape.bsky.social www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/...
June 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Great interview with Bantry Librarian, Denis Murphy, in the
@irishexaminer.bsky.social Books Are My Business column. We host #FreeEvents in #BantryLibrary every day during WCLF
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Books are my business: Librarian at Bantry Library Denis Murphy
'Approaching high summer, the West Cork Literary Festival concentrates most of my attention'
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June 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Pulitzer Prize finalist @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social will be at WCLF on 12 July at 1pm for a free event in #BantryLibrary. Her novel The Scrapbook will be published in July by @jonathancape.bsky.social. And did we mention that her family is from West Cork!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/b...
He Locked Away Wartime Memories Until His Granddaughter Opened the Pages
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June 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Lovely piece on Cork County Library Writing Groups @echolive.bsky.social & a shout-out to our #FreeEvent #BantryLibrary 14 July with Cork County Council Writer in Residence Leeanne O'Donnell & writers from
Castletownbere, Charleville, Fermoy, Macroom, Schull libraries
www.echolive.ie/corklives/ar...
'We keep each other grounded': Cork authors on what it is like to join a writing group
Creative writing groups across Cork are a great place for people who love writing to share their passion. MARGARET DONNELLAN talks about joining her ...
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May 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Cork County Council invites writers to submit short stories for the second volume of ‘Come Sit Awhile’, a unique compilation designed for people with dementia & their carers. Closing date 28 March. The publication will be launched in #BantryLibrary during WCLF in July www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/cork...
Cork County Council Library and Arts Service Seek Stories for Reminiscing
Cork County Council Library and Arts Service is inviting writers to submit short stories for the second volume of ‘Come Sit Awhile’, a unique compilation designed for people with dementia and their ca...
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March 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Our favourite brutalist building is definitely #BantryLibrary
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After The Brutalist: our readers name their favourite brutalist buildings
From London’s Barbican to Berlin’s Corbusierhaus, urban concrete edifices continue to inspire us – whether they be art spaces, apartment blocks or even car parks
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February 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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What a wonderful Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín has been. We were very lucky to welcome him to WCLF during his tenure and #BantryLibrary hosted one of his The Art of Reading Book Clubs in 2022. Thank you Colm. In this video he reflects on his time as Laureate www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFoQ...
Laureate End of Year Address 2024
YouTube video by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
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February 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM