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NEWS & EVENTS

24 FEB 2024

Wexford Town Library

Ireland Reads Event
2:00 pm

Writing the Deadwood to Life

19-24 SEP 2023

Aberdeen, Scotland

WayWORD Festival


16-18 JUN 2023

Borris, Carlow

28 MAR 2023

Arklow County Library

Reading with Claire Keegan

7:00-8.00 pm


20 JAN 2023

Carnew Library, Wicklow

Reading with Claire Keegan

7:00-8.00 pm


06 DEC 2022

Wicklow County Library

Reading with Claire Keegan

6:00-7:30 pm


16 NOV 2022

Carlow Central Library

Lunchtime in the Library Series

1:00-2:00 pm

Reading and Q&A session

13 NOV 2022

New Theatre, Temple Bar

Dublin Book Festival

2:00-3:00 pm

An Emerging Writers event chaired by Pat Carty

15 OCT 2022

Civic Studio Theatre, Tallaght

Tallaght Red Line Festival

3:00-4:00 pm

Daring Debuts hosted by Claire Hennessey with Olivia Fitzsimons and Amanda Geard

30 SEP 2022

Bray Town Hall

Bray Literary Festival 

2:00-3:00 pm

Dazzling Debuts panel hosted by David Butler with Aingeala Flannery and Paul Duffy

29 SEP 2022

Hynes Bar, Prussia St, Dublin 7

An informal reading and discussion evening hosted by Colette Woods
9:00 pm

12 AUG 2022

Club D'Art, Pembroke Lane

Carlow Fringe Festival

8:00 pm

Reading alongside John McKenna, Derek Coyle and Barry McKinley

29 JUL 2022

Marketplace Theatre, Armagh

John Hewitt Society Summer School

2:00-3:00 pm

In conversation with Jan Carsons, reading with Olivia Fitzsimons and Kevin Doherty

28 APR 2022

Teachers' Club, Dublin 2

Launch of The Deadwood Encore

6:30 pm

News: List

My Book of the Year!
Kathleen Murray is the Irish Coen Brothers -- in Carlow. She'll make you laugh and cry.

Claire Keegan, author of Small Things Like These

News: Quote

DEADWOOD ENCORE IS LAUNCHED

May 2022 A huge thank you to everyone for the wonderful welcome you've given The Deadwood Encore. We had a Dublin launch and a Carlow launch and there were tears and hugs a-plenty at both. It's also been great to meet so many Irish booksellers in the last few weeks—a wonderful breed! Dubray, Easons, Raven Books, Kennys, Hodges Figgis to name but a few. Thanks for your support. 

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News: Portfolio
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32 WONDERFUL IRISH BOOKS: ONE SET IN EVERY COUNTY

Irish Times, 16 Mar 2022

Carlow: "Now spoiled for choice, I ended up selecting The Deadwood Encore by Kathleen Murray, a debut comic novel unambiguously set in a small Carlow town."

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12 DEBUT IRISH WRITERS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2022

Irish Times, 13 Jan 2022

Her debut novel is a portrait of a family in a small Irish community, and centres upon Frank Walsh, the seventh son of a seventh son.

The Bookseller Magazine Jan 2022

HARPERCOLLINS IRELAND SNAPS UP 'BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE' DEBUT NOVEL

The Bookseller, 11 Jan 2022

Catherine Gough, commissioning editor, bought Ireland, UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to The Deadwood Encore from Gráinne Fox at Fletcher & Company.

News: Press
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