IT’S all systems go for Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter’s annual Literary Festival which runs from Thursday, October 17 until Sunday, October 20. One of the event organisers, Donnan Harvey, said the event promises to be bigger and better than ever’. He said the festival has grown year-on-year, and if it keeps moving in the right direction it […]
Letterkenny Literary Festival is bigger and better than ever
THE Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter’s 2023 Literary Festival got off to a flying start following Elusive Theatre’s presentation of Brendan Behan’s play, ‘Moving Out’. In 1952, Behan was commissioned to write two plays for Radio Eireann about the trials and tribulations of an inner city Dublin family, the Hannigans, facing the prospects of moving to suburbia. According to […]
Literary Festival to celebrate Behan connection
Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Literary Festival will this year celebrate the centenary of the birth of Brendan Behan and his connections with Letterkenny. The festival committee has just announced the details of its inaugural poetry competition along with the launch of a dedicated website for the festival. The new website https://lkcqlitfest.weebly.com/ contains a provisional programme of events for […]