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The second edition of Wexford Women Writing Undercover was launched in an interactive zoom performance last night.  The event was presided over by Undercover editor Deirdre McGarry and saw famed Wexford director Laura Way launch the edition. Performances were provided by Grace O' Reilly, Ellen Lordan Lohier, Lily Whyte Weaver, Madeline O' Rourke, Sadie Harpur, Mary Blackburn, Abigail Way, Alanna Hammel, Paula Malone Carty, Juliana Menezes, Saoirse Wadding-Hayes, Caroline Stevens-Taylor, Teresa O'Hara and Ursula Clarke. Wexford Women Writing Undercover was formed last March by Deirdre McGarry and Red Books Press, with the idea of providing a platform for talented women writers...

Pippi Firman has created art all his life. As a child, he played in the mud of the Horse River, creating dams and building bridges. From sticks and stones, he progressed to stone masonry. He developed his painting through his work on wagons, carriages and steam engines. In mid 2020 he launched his first exhibition in the Wexford Arts Centre. The centerpiece was a series of portraits. Twenty faces looming from the shadows. Painted in fluid black brushstrokes. A whole range of emotions were expressed. Anguish. Contentment. Indifference. Torment. One portrait showed a man’s shocked face caught in the glow...

A book of short stories, poems and illustrations by Wexford Children will capture a unique view of an historical period, according to publishers Red Books Press. "A Little Bit of Magic: Stories by Children of Wexford in Lockdown" will be launched at 3pm on Sunday at the 50th Annual Wexford Book and Collectors Fair in the Talbot Hotel. The book contains submissions by over fifty Wexford children, aged between 5 and 16, originally collected during the Great Wexford Short Story Competition, a lockdown inspired endeavour which ran for fourteen weeks in 2020. The book features work by the following children;Martha...

The Wexford Book and Collectors Fair will take place in Wexford towns Talbot Hotel on the 31st of October, marking the 50th anniversary of Irelands longest running book fair moving from Enniscorthy to Wexford. In 1971, Wexford book seller and stamp dealer Anton O’ Broin cut a deal with the then manager of the Talbot Hotel, the late Sean Scallan, to secure it as the venue for all future fairs during the annual Wexford Opera Festival. Anton has attended every subsequent Fair and will be in attendance once again in 2021, selling his beloved ‘leabhair as gaeilge’ and spreading his...

Have you had a chance to visit the new Dublin City Books & Browsables Market which takes place every Sunday from 11-4pm in St Patricks Park? As a bookseller, I have to commend Dublin City Council for trying to revive the romanticism and mystique of the ancient city book markets which once flourished along the banks of the Liffey. These ragtag collections of bookshops, book barrow marketers and chap hawkers were the focal point of a melting pot of society. Revolutionary's, aristocrats, philosophers and labourers met on equal ground over a shared love for books. These markets blossomed during the...