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A annual weekend of literature and inspiration, held at Borris House & Village 7-9 June 2024

Borris House, Co. Carlow, IRL
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@Writingandideas
Festival of Writing & Ideas at Borris
7 years
If you picked up @SunTimesIreland today the secret is out! Florence Welch @flo_tweet joins our 2017 line-up! 💃🏼🎉
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@Writingandideas
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First announcement for #writingandideas 2018 & it's very exciting indeed ... Bob Geldof, @MargaretAtwood , @traceyemin , John Paul Jones, @KitdeWaal , @guypratt , @viv_albertine , @chessmartinez , @DeirdreOKane1 & loads more! It's going to be a good year!
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SATURDAY 21st at 12:20 - PLAYING AT BEING GROWN UPS: @MarianKeyes (Grown Ups) and @amyhuberman talk about love, comedy, writing and everything in between. #writingandideas2021
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@Writingandideas
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Sunday afternoon @writingandideas in The Owlery - Adam Clayton in conversation with @johnkellytweets
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@Writingandideas
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Beautiful weather here at @borrishouse ☀️ We are getting ready for you all to join the fun this weekend! Remember camping options are still available via our website 🙌⛺️
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@Writingandideas
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@OSullivanJennie @rtenews Congratulations to the Puttnams who have done so very much for Ireland, for West Cork, and for us in Borris. @Writingandideas @DPuttnam
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On this #BorrisBroadcast Tuesday, we have a very special reading of T.S. Eliot's landmark poem The Waste Land by @jeremyironsnet and Sinéad Cusack. Assisted by the @eliotfoundation Available on demand now:
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JUNE 3rd, 6:30pm GMT: @EmmaDabiri AND @lemnsissay THE MYTH OF RACE: INTERROGATING WHITENESS AND CONCEPTS OF IDENTITY Performance poet Lemn Sissay joins fellow academic, writer and broadcaster Emma Dabiri for an evening of insightful, inspiring and informed conversation.
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Saturday @writingandideas LOOKING POSSESSED, & HEADING FOR THE STEINWAY Musician, composer @warrenellis13 & author of Nina Simone's Gum talks to @colingreenwood of @radiohead about his memoir (intro @nickcave )his obsessions and how a piece of chewing gum became his talisman.
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Friday 7th June. 2.15 pm in The Owlery. THE HOLY LAND IN ANTIQUITY: Historian @holland_tom (author of In the Shadow of the Sword) on the ancient roots of the current conflict in Israel and Palestine, explaining the present crisis in the context of the deep past.
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@Writingandideas
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Standing ovation for Ocean Vuong in @tcddublin for his @Writingandideas / @eliotfoundation event
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@Writingandideas
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A full house for @fotoole @UnaMullally @EmmetKirwan - absolutely fascinating and passionate discussion on the recent referendum, the role of the church in our society, media narratives, the new generation of activists and much much more #writingandideas
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@Writingandideas
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It's been ten years since the first Festival of Writing & Ideas, and we are proud to bring you an intimate edition of this lovely weekend-long event at such a time as this, in a place as beautiful as Borris, Co Carlow. We are so excited about this year's programme!
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@Writingandideas
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TONIGHT 6:30pm don't miss AN EVENING WITH PRESIDENT MICHAEL D. HIGGINS & COLM TOIBIN. Recorded just yesterday in the Áras an Uachtaráin, the conversation will be broadcast online for a live audience this evening! Get your tickets at @PresidentIRL
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@Writingandideas
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2018 Programme coming together nicely - should have first announcements at the end of next week!
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@Writingandideas
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We agree. In fact we agree enough to be looking forward to hearing @UnaMullally be allowed to talk, with Emmet Kirwan and Fintan O’Toole, on this subject in Borris.
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Amazing Women 🙌 Anne Enright & @MargaretAtwood at #writingandideas last Friday
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So proud to be in the Top 5 Writer's festivals alongside incredible company in Sydney, Jaipur, Bali and Wales!
@Carlow_Co_Co
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Great mention of #Borris Festival of Writing & Ideas in @TheTelegraph__ 'The best literary festivals for 2019' #inCarlow @Writingandideas @borrishouse @carlowtourism @VisitCarlow
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Exciting announcement! 📣 @MargaretAtwood will be in conversation with Anne Enright on Friday 8th June and with @maxjohnporter on Sunday 10th June at #writingandideas18 Limited Day tickets for Friday and Sunday still available on
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@Writingandideas
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Full schedule @Writingandideas 1/4 Friday 7 June
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@Writingandideas
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What is love by @ImeldaOfficial - beautifully read @Writingandideas this afternoon @FaberBooks
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@Writingandideas
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NEWS!! we’re starting an online book club with authors who will be joining us at the 2024 Festival. Starting Thurs 7th Dec @ 7pm with Colm Tóibín discussing ‘Brooklyn’ - via @YouTube Hosted by @CormacKinsella - tune in here
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@Writingandideas
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We’re announcing the full programme for this year’s festival on Monday!!! It’s going to be great!! #excited #bignews #writing #ideas #carlow
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On Saturday 17th @Writingandideas The Future of Irish Woodlands 4.40-5.35pm | The Granary @ManchanMagan and @IrishRainforest with Paul McMahon talking about the prospect of diverse, natural woodlands in Ireland, & whether we should still plant Sitka spruce across the country.
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@Writingandideas
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We are thrilled to announce the lineup of the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas 2022. Join us in Carlow this 10th - 12th June for a very international event. Get your weekend or day tickets now at #writingandideas2022
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@Writingandideas
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We were so delighted to receive 'Best Festival or Tourist Experience' at the 2018 Carlow Business Awards yesterday @carlowchamber #lovecarlow #carlowrising
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Friday 7th June. 2.15 pm in The Wren’s Nest DOUBLE TROUBLE: @MargaretAtwood (Old Babes in the Wood) and @Deborah Levy (August Blue) on living through uncertainty, writing between darkness and light. Introduced by @fotoole
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@Writingandideas
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Final preparations under way in the sunshine for #writingandideas18 - Will you be joining us this evening? Individual tickets still available on the website. ☀️☀️☀️
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The 3rd @Writingandideas Book Club will be live on @youtube 7pm Wed 31 January. @CormacKinsella will be talking to @jonronson about his book #ThePsychopathTest and his @BBCSounds podcast #ThingsFellApart - tune in on #jonronson
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If you missed the 2nd online @Writingandideas book club with Anne Enright chatting about The Wren, The Wren last night with @CormacKinsella - you can watch it here via @YouTube
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Just added! Grief Is The Thing With Feathers Fresh from it’s hugely successful theatre run, writer @maxjohnporter , adapter Enda Walsh, & actor Cillian Murphy discuss their collaboration June 10th #writingandideas18 Tickets will go fast 🎟🎟
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@Writingandideas
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Hi Everyone @MargaretAtwood has had to withdraw as she has contracted Covid. We are very sorry to bring this news and we all wish Margaret a speedy recovery. She wrote last night to say
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Next Sunday @flo_tweet & her book club @BetweenTwoBooks are joined by Eimear McBride to discuss The Lesser Bohemians
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Lovely evening on the ⁦ @Writingandideas ⁩ site. It’s beginning to look a lot like a festival!! Only 3 more sleeps!! #veryexciting
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@Writingandideas
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We are entirely sold out! Please note there will not be any day, weekend or individual talk tickets available at the festival box office. Thank you for all your support and interest #writingandideas19
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Saturday @writingandideas THE FUTURE OF IRISH WOODLANDS: @IrishRainforest author of An Irish Atlantic Rainforest and Paul McMahon author of Island of Woods: How Ireland Lost its Forests talk about the thrilling prospect of more diverse, natural woodlands in Ireland. @HachetteIre
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Listen in tomorrow morning @AntonSavageShow 11.30AM & hear @SimonCallow chat all things #OrsonWelles #SeamusHeaney
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Saturday @writingansideas STAYING TRUE TO YOURSELF: @thebookerprizes winner Bernardine Evaristo In conversation with @emmadabiri discussing her vital contribution to the current conversation around race, class, feminism, sexuality, aging.... and never giving up @PenguinUKBooks
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@Writingandideas
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As the sun begins to go down and we approach our final event of the day, thank you to each and every one of you who are supporting the festival this year. See you tomorrow :)
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@Writingandideas
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We hope everyone is safe & warm in from the snow! 🌨❄️ We are thinking about the sunny days of June while we plan #WritingandIdeas 2018 ☀️ See for the amazing list of speakers so far! Weekend tickets are getting low so pick them up while you can! 🎟
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@Writingandideas
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We are delighted to bring you news of 4 additions to the line up for this year's festival. Join @PatrickFreyne1 and @jonronson on Saturday morning as they chat about writing yourself into your own scoop.
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@Writingandideas
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In this week's #BorrisBroadcast we bring you @allaboutwilson and @lennyabrahamson ,and their discussion at Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas 2022. Watch the full conversation now:
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Enjoy this sneak peak of the first #BorrisBroadcasts with @jeremyironsnet and @DPuttnam released today across platforms. Join us over on Youtube this afternoon to listen to the full conversation.
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@Writingandideas
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Following the online talk between @MarianKeyes and @LisaTaddeo in the summer, we are proud to launch eight more: The Winter Series starting with @stephenfry and Colm Toibin this Thursday. Join us!
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🎼🎸Our next Winter Series event is taking place in less than a week - and it's going to be a real treat!! CHRISSIE HYNDE AND FIACHNA Ó BRAONÁIN - AN OBSESSION WITH BOB DYLAN. 9th Feb 6:30pm GMT @ChrissieHynde @fobraonain @howtoacademy
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Welcome @DeirdreOKane1 to our line-up! She'll be chatting to @mrjohnbutler June 10th about his new film Handsome Devil #writingandideas 📽️
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Not long now until we are back home @borrishouse for an inspiring weekend of talks & events
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@Writingandideas
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Sunday morning and a packed house for @MargaretAtwood in conversation with @maxjohnporter on myth, fiction and poetry #writingandideas
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A totally captive audience as @dollyalderton talks to @roisiningle about the grand intimacy and romance in her female friendships... ❤️ #writingandideas #everythingiknowaboutlove
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@Writingandideas
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Additional 2020 speakers announced - Simon Armitage, Ian McEwan, Elaine Feeney, Ruby Wax, Sarah Waters and the welcome return of Philippe Sands. Back with more in January.
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⚡️OUR 2021 PROGRAMME IS READY!! Check it out! We can't wait to welcome you and all our amazing speakers next week - 20-22nd August! Full details on our website!
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@Writingandideas
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Change of date alert! ✨🚨🕕 Our next event MISINFORMATION'S THREAT TO DEMOCRACY with #DavidPuttnam and @carolecadwalla will now take place FEB 24th at 6:30pm GMT. Don't miss it, get your tickets at !
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AN EVENING WITH PRESIDENT MICHAEL D. HIGGINS AND COLM TÓIBÍN Recorded on Bloomsday in the Áras an Uachtaráin, this conversation will be broadcast online for a live audience on Thursday the 17th of June at 6:30pm GMT. Tickets at @PresidentIRL
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The very last tickets for @MargaretAtwood Laurie Anderson ( @OnlyAnExpert ) & Mary Robinson in conversation w/ @johnkellytweets in the @BGETheatre this Sunday are available. Delighted to announce that ornithologist  @ronayne88 will also be onstage
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Friday 7th June: Gender-activists @Glamrou and @PantiBliss bring a touch of glamour to Borris @Writingandideas and talk about the politics of identity, the power of dressing up, and the fun of showing off. Not necessarily in that order.
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What a great 3 days we had! Lots of great pictures & videos to come! Share your memories & tell us your favourite part... #writingandideas
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A beautiful short video capturing the magic of #writingandideas Filmed by @GanseeFilms at the 2016 Festival. 📽️ ☀️
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Our new project launched today - starting with Colm Toibin talking to Stephen Fry; Ruby Wax with Alastair Campbell; Antony Beevor with Christina Lamb @Writingandideas online to get us through the winter. Reserve tickets now, or get one for a pal.
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Thank you for coming @flo_tweet , we loved having you here! Forever welcome back ❤️
@florencemachine
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Honoured to share a stage with one of my literary heroes Jeffrey Eugenides, thank you to @WritingandIdeas for an inspiring weekend x
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Poetry on the grass... Michael Longley reads from his work on the final day of #writingandideas
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Friday June 9th @flo_tweet talks to @fobraonain about poems and lyrics that inspire her! #writingandideas Tickets:
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'Truck. Wiggle Out. Jump. Run. Somebody' #RoomTheMovie @lennyabrahamson #writingandideas2016
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Individual tickets for talks over the next 3 days are are still available ! Lots of speakers & hopefully lots of ☀️
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On Friday 8th June @MargaretAtwood , writer of #TheHandmaidsTale #OryxandCrake #BlindAssassin , will be in conversation with Anne Enright, #TheGreenRoad #TheGathering , at #writingandideas18 Don’t miss it! Limited Day tickets for Friday available via
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Carl Bernstein, Mary Robinson, Satish Kumar, Sarah Perry.... a few more speakers for next June.
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. @fobraonain welcomes pioneering singer- songwriter @OnlyAnExpert Laurie Anderson to #festivalofwritingandideas2022 with a tune, with assistance from the audience.
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We can’t wait to do it all again tomorrow. #festivalofwritingandideas2022
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Due to unforeseen circumstances @KitdeWaal is unable to attend #writingandideas this weekend. @bronaghgall will join @SwearyLady and @sineadgleeson for An Articulate Working Class Hold with us while we programme Abandonment with David Park and @SophieTheGorman
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An audience left speechless after an incredibly moving talk from @gilesduley on working with refugees for his Legacy of War Foundation - in conversation w/ @benjohnanderson #writingandideas
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It’s our largest line-up to date & all individual tickets are now on sale 3 Days, Over 70 speakers, 5 stages, 1 beautiful house & village Tickets are moving quickly, so move quickly too to avoid disappointment 🎟🎟🏃‍♀️ @borrishouse @Stephousehotel
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Who is joining us in Borris tomorrow? We are very excited to welcome you all back to the festival :) #festivalofwritingandideas2022
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Claire Keegan & @lemnsissay talk fosterhood - the heartbreak and the joy, June 9th in Borris!
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Delighted for past Borris speakers @kamilashamsie ,Sebastian Barry & Mike McCormack #manbooker17 🎉📚
@TheBookerPrizes
The Booker Prizes
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We are pleased to announce our #ManBooker2017 longlist! Watch what our judges had to say… #FinestFiction
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And here comes Saturday...
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Friday 20th at 6pm: IRELAND, EUROPE AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS: President Michael D. Higgins and Lord David Puttnam in conversation. @PresidentIRL @DPuttnam
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‘I will not allow this government treat me like a second class citizen’ Disability rights activist Joanne O’Riordan comes to #writingandideas18 June 8 to talk to @roisiningle about her inspiring life & her campaign for disability rights @NolimbsNolimits
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Saturday afternoon @Writingandideas in The Rookery @Baddiel in conversation with @WilliamSieghart about the existence of God . . . . #TheGodDesire @TheTLS
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We’re live with @MargaretAtwood and Anne Enright in the ballroom for #writingandideas
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Amazing literary event klaxon for Dublin on 6th June 7pm!! @MoLI_Museum in association with @Writingandideas & the @eliotfoundation present an evening with Ocean Vuong in conversation with Dr Kit Fryatt in @tcddublin €10 - booking here:
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June 9th 'What Terrorists Want' @MaajidNawaz & Louise Richardson discuss #writingandideas @UniofOxford @LBC
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Saturday afternoon @Writingandideas in The Owlery - Bernardine Evaristo & @EmmaDabiri - @PenguinUKBooks
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Saturday @writingandideas GIVE US ALL YOU GOT: Days before the release of his solo venture Chaos for the Fly,  @fontainesdublin frontman  @GrianChatten talks with photographer and film-maker Perry Ogden about poetry, punkery, showmanship, and being Irish.  #fontainesdc #grianchatten
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The 2nd @Writingandideas Book Club is on Thursday 11th January 2024 at 7pm with Anne Enright discussing The Wren, The Wren with @CormacKinsella - tune in here - #thewrenthewren
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#throwbackthursday to June 2019 when the wonderful Lemn Sissay joined us in Borris! Don't miss TONIGHT at 6:30pm GMT - THE MYTH OF RACE: INTERROGATING WHITENESS AND CONCEPTS OF IDENTITY with @lemnsissay and @EmmaDabiri in conversation. Tickets at
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THE HOLY LAND IN ANTIQUITY: Historian @holland_tom (In the Shadow of the Sword) on the ancient roots of the current disaster in Israel and Palestine, explaining the present crisis in the context of the deep past.
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Borris @Writingandideas festival draws book-lovers from all over country via @CWnationalist
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If you missed last night’s @Writingandideas ‘Lucy By The Sea’ Book Club with Elizabeth Strout in conversation with @CormacKinsella - it’s now available on the Borris Broadcasts @YouTube channel #elizabethstrout #lucybythesea
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Friday 7 June 2.15pm @Writingandideas - DOUBLE TROUBLE: @MargaretAtwood (Old Babes in the Wood) and Deborah Levy (August Blue) on living through uncertainty, writing between darkness and light. Introduced by @fotoole
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As day one wraps up we'd like to take a moment and thank our wonderful sponsors and funders without whom this festival would not be possible @DoyleCollection @artscouncil_ie @Failte_Ireland @ancienteastIRL @rte @Carlow_Co_Co @EU_Commission @CarlowLEO #rtesupportingthearts
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Festival of Writing & Ideas at Borris
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Amazing talk in the Granary with @LisaSHarding and @gilesduley discussing the worldwide problem of sex trafficking & its victims’ plight
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Packed event in The Granary with Paul McMahon @ManchanMagan & @IrishRainforest - discussing the future of Irish forests @HachetteIre
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Festival of Writing & Ideas at Borris
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Fancy meeting you here! The hallways of @borrishouse were packed with greatness last weekend... Bob Geldof & John Paul Jones just hanging out! 🙌😎 #writingandideas
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Festival of Writing & Ideas at Borris
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Friday June 8th @viv_albertine & @SophieTheGorman sit down at #writingandideas to discuss #ToThrowAwayUnopened - Viv’s unflinchingly honest new memoir which challenges authority & delves into the complexity of female relationships 🙌 Last few tickets 🎟🎟
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Festival of Writing & Ideas at Borris
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OH MY GOD Aisling is coming to Borris this weekend! Saturday in @Stephousehotel @SarahJayBee & @EmerTheScreamer sit down with @AlisonSpittle and tell us all about their runaway success... 💁🏻 Tickets 🎟🎟
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Festival of Writing & Ideas at Borris
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Really sorry to announce that we are completely sold out for @Writingandideas 2023 for all weekend and day tickets. There will be no tickets available at the gate. Please don’t travel unless you have a ticket. #Soldout
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