2026 Festival
Speaker Profile
Cathy Kelly
Cathy Kelly is a bestselling Irish author known for her stories about real women’s lives - the messy relationships, the love, the loss and everything in between. She has written twenty-two novels, selling millions of copies globally. In addition to her writing, she is a UNICEF ambassador and lives and writes from her home in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, surrounded by her family, two dogs and a cat.
Free Event
Writers On Writing
Friday April 24
Hotel Sorrento (Cooper Room)
1.30pm
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60 mins
Maxine Beneba Clarke, Andrew Daddo and Cathy Kelly with Tim Ayliffe
This is a Free Event
My Ireland: One small country, one vast literary history
Saturday April 25
Sorrento Community Centre
2.30pm
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60 mins
John Boyne, Cathy Kelly and Niall Williams with Brendan Donohoe
We pay tribute to Ireland’s literary canon, its great writers, their stories, and the influence of landscape and culture on our three writers’ oeuvres.