Granard Booktown festival is inspired by the global booktown movement most notably by Wigtown in Scotland. It aims to boost tourism and economy for the town.
Through books and the arts, Granard, a small midlands town will become Ireland’s newest booktown. Using words and literature, the festival will bring speakers, writers and artists to the town over a long weekend each April.
By being a booktown they aim to encourage people who love books to visit the town and share in the arts generated around books and provide cultural amenities through the building of not just a national festival but an international one in the heart of Ireland.
Over three days, April 21 – 23, the festival will see a host of literary figures from Ireland and abroad converging on Granard to discuss their work and all things literature.
With some of the finest writers and advocates like Donal Ryan, Sinead Burke, Professor Tim Flannery and Sally Hayden attending this year’s festival, audiences are in for a real treat.
There will also be several local writers in attendance, including Manchán Magan, Shelly Corcoran, Adrian Duncan Jr., Sean Columb and Seán Ó Súilleabháin, to name a few.
Tickets are now on sale their box office in Knights and Conquest Centre in Granard Co. Longford and from their website here.
