A world book festival based on a traditional Catalan celebration of books is expected to attract 15,000 people to Cork town this weekend.
the three-day festival consists of writing workshops, hand printing of books utilizing a traditional letterpress and a concert performance by Barcelona-based multidisciplinary audio group VerdCel, from short tale author Claire Keegan, novelist Paul Murray and BBC journalist Fergal Keane. Keegan, from Wicklow, has earned a reputation at your home and abroad like a major Irish short tale writer. Both Murray and Keegan will engage in discussion with Hilary Lennon of University College Cork's school of English on Saturday night.
The festival highlight requires place on Saturday, featuring a selection of neighborhood bookshops selling collections on Cork's Grand Parade plaza, coinciding with an artisan food reasonable and independent crafts displayed on up to 30 stalls.
Cork's World Book Festival first took place in 2005, throughout the city's reign as European Capital of Culture. It's origins lie in the century-old Catalan tradition celebrating the anniversary within the death of both Shakespeare and Cervantes on April 23rd.
Tonight at 7pm, Fergal Keane will read from his book The Road of Bones: the Battle of Kohima 1944, which tells the tale of a little-known battle about the border in between Burma and in india throughout the second World War |
