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The Word. Online with author, Mike McCormack. Music with Seamie O’Dowd

November 24, 2021 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

WEDNESDAY, November 24, 2021 6:30PM

FREE Online event.

THE WORD, is an ONLINE reading series hosted by Sligo Library Service and the Writing + Literature BA course at IT Sligo.

Featuring: Mike McCormack, award winning novelist, in conversation with Alice Lyons.

Music with Seamie O’Dowd

Open Mic

Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. In 2016 he won the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Irish Book Award Novel of the Year and Book of the Year prizes for Solar Bones. In 2018 Solar Bones also won the Dublin International Literary Award (formerly known as the IMPAC). The novel was also shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Kerry Group Irish Novel Award. In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. His previous work includes Getting it in the Head (1995), Crowe’s Requiem (1998), Notes from a Coma (2005), which was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award, and Forensic Songs (2012). He lives in Galway.

Seamie O Dowd is a renowned guitarist, singer, and songwriter who also plays fiddle, harmonica, mandolin, and a number of other instruments. He has travelled worldwide playing music and has shared stages and played with many great musicians and bands including, The Chieftains, Dervish and Steve Wickham.

Open Mic

The Open Mic will be Limited to eight attendees of the ZOOM event, with three minutes per person.

If you are interested in performing in the Open Mic, please email mibrennan@sligococo.ie, NO LATER THAN TUESDAY, 23rd of November. **Limited Space**

This event will be Streamed on Facebook on the night.

The Word is a collaboration between Sligo Central Library and the BA in Writing & Literature at IT Sligo.

There is no charge for this event.

sligolib@sligococo.ie/ 0719111675

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Date:
November 24, 2021
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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on ZOOM

Details

Date:
November 24, 2021
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Event Categories:
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Venue

on ZOOM