Immrama – The Lismore Festival of Travel Writing 2023 will take place in June.
The weekend opens on Thursday June 15 at 8.00pm
welcoming back two writers John Dwyer and Rosamund Burton. They both have books launched, b coincidentally both about Australia.
Friday 16th 8.00pm
Isabel Conway is an award winning travel writer and writes weekly in the Irish Examiner. She will be speaking about the late Lismorian Dervla Murphy. She will talk to us about meeting Dervla and discussing places they both have visited.
Saturday 17th
There is a full lineup on Saturday June 17 with four speakers presenting.
10.15am: Donald Brady will be speaking about John Palliser of Comeragh House and his extensive travels in Canada.
11.00am: Matthew Jebb, Director of The Botanic Gardens will be speaking about “The search for the Garden of Eden through travelling for plants”. This will be followed by a guided tour of the Lismore Castle Gardens by Matthew.
3.00pm: Lara Marlowe, recently retired as the Irish Times Correspondent in Paris, will speak of her best selling book “Love in a Time of War” and her marriage to Robert Fisk.
Robert visited twice in Lismore to packed audiences. She has written exclusively about The Middle East, former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Afghanistan and The Central African Republic.
7.00pm: Brian O’Donovan, RTE’s Work and Technology Correspondent was previously RTE’s Washington Correspondent for four years. He will be speaking about those years during the Trump era and his book “Four Years in the Cauldron”
Sunday 18th- 11.00am
The festival will finish with a very special presentation from Tomi Reichental. Tomi is one of three surviving Holocaust survivors living in Ireland. e will tell us of his time in Bergen Belsen and his book “I was a boy in Belsen”. He has spoken widely in many places in Ireland and his talk will be enthralling.
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