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
Friday April 24
Hotel Sorrento (Cooper Room)
1.30pm / 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 / 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.