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Latest Laois Event: Leaves Festival returns to Laois for 2022
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Latest Laois Event: Leaves Festival returns to Laois for 2022

The Leaves Festival Of Writing & Music 2022

9-12 November 2022

The Leaves Festival 2022 brings the best of Irish writing and music to Co Laois this November. 

The festival is delighted to welcome Booker Prize shortlisted Claire Keegan as its 1st festival length writer in residence. Her Booker Prize shortlisted novel Small Things Like These has had an extraordinary public reception since publication and Claire will join us for a public event with novelist & broadcaster Edel Coffey as well as a series of workshops in schools libraries and prison. 

Leaves Festival 2022 launched. Alison Browne, Downtown Portlaoise (right) with Michelle de Forge Director Dunamaise Arts Centre at the Dunamaise Arts Centre for the launch of the Leaves Festival of Writing & Music to be held 9-12th November. Picture: Alf Harvey, no reproduction fee

Small Things Like These  Is also the October One County One Book for Laois.

There’ll also be 2 screenings of the award winning film An Cailín Ciúin based on Claire Keegan’s story Foster.

Leaves Festival launched. Michelle de Forge, Director of Dunamaise Arts Centre; Donal Brennan, Director of Services Laois County Council; Muireann Ni Chonaill, Laois Arts Officer; Cormac Kinsella, Leaves Festival; Cllr Thomasina Connell, Cathaoirleach of Laois County Council; Micheline Egan, Leaves Festival; Aoife Moore, Portlaoise Librarian; Pam Tynan, Laois County Council; Catherine Guidera, Laois Arts Office and Bernie Foran, Laois County Librarian at the Dunamaise Arts Centre for the launch of the Leaves Festival of Writing & Music to be held 9-12th November. Picture: Alf Harvey, no reproduction fee
Leaves Festival 2022 launched. Aoife Moore, Portlaoise Librarian; Cllr Thomasina Connell, Cathaoirleach of Laois County Council; Bernie Foran, Laois County Librarian and Micheline Egan, Leaves Festival at the Dunamaise Arts Centre for the launch of the Leaves Festival of Writing & Music to be held 9-12th November. Picture: Alf Harvey, no reproduction fee
Leaves Festival 2022 launched. Muireann Ni Chonaill, Laois Arts Officer; Catherine Guidera, Laois Arts Office and Cormac Kinsella, Leaves Festival at the Dunamaise Arts Centre for the launch of the Leaves Festival of Writing & Music to be held 9-12th November. Picture: Alf Harvey, no reproduction fee
Leaves Festival 2022 launched. Cllr Thomasina Connell, Cathaoirleach of Laois County Council; Pam Tynan, Laois County Council and Cormac Kinsella, Leaves Festival at the Dunamaise Arts Centre for the launch of the Leaves Festival of Writing & Music to be held 9-12th November. Picture: Alf Harvey, no reproduction fee
Leaves Festival 2022 launched. Donal Brennan, Director of Services Laois County Council; Cormac Kinsella, Leaves Festival; Cllr Thomasina Connell, Cathaoirleach of Laois County Council and Micheline Egan, Leaves Festival at the Dunamaise Arts Centre for the launch of the Leaves Festival of Writing & Music to be held 9-12th November. Picture: Alf Harvey, no reproduction fee

We’ll also 

  • celebrate 40 years of Salmon Publishing with a music and poetry event
  • welcome Co Laois natives poet Pat Boran and chef Rory O’Connell (in conversation with Katy McGuinness). 
  • have music from Harpanno & Alannah Murray & The Messages amongst others. 
  • host Ronán Hession in conversation with broadcaster Clare O’Brien
  • hold an afternoon open mic event of Poetry and music.
  • Launch World of Words, a collection of short stories by new Irish writers that is the culmination of a creative writing journey started almost a year ago in the aftermath of lockdown. Published by Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board 
  • Rediscover the Magic of Reading What Poems Look Like for Children with Dr. Becky Long
Leaves Festival 2022 launched. Lorraine O’Callaghan, Laura Dunne and Michelle de Forge from the Dunamaise Arts Centre with Alastair Roe, Vimar Digital Marketing; Cormac Kinsella, Leaves Festival and Corrina Brereton, Allbooks at the Dunamaise Arts Centre for the launch of the Leaves Festival of Writing & Music to be held 9-12th November. Picture: Alf Harvey, no reproduction fee
Cllr Thomasina Connell, Cathaoirleach of Laois County Council; Muireann Ni Chonaill, Laois Arts Officer and Cormac Kinsella from the Leaves Festival at the Dunamaise Arts Centre for the launch of the Leaves Festival of Writing & Music to be held 9-12th November. Picture: Alf Harvey, no reproduction fee
Leaves Festival 2022 launched. Micheline Egan and Cormac Kinsella from the Leaves Festival at the Dunamaise Arts Centre for the launch of the Leaves Festival of Writing & Music to be held 9-12th November. Picture: Alf Harvey, no reproduction fee

Please join us 8th-12th November 2022.

Full program available at www.leavesfestival.ie 

For tickets or to check out the full program of events see www.leavesfestival.ie or  www.dunamaise.ie  . Tickets can also be booked directly from Dunamaise Box Office, Tel: 057 8663355. 

Leaves Festival 2022, is brought to you by Laois Arts Office, Laois County Library Service, Dunamaise Arts Centre and funded by Laois County Council, the Arts Council, Laois Partnership and Creative Ireland Laois.