Category Archives: Readings

CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: Wednesday March 6th @ Toner’s (Baggot Street) at 7:30 pm

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Lia Mills

Here’s a small break in tradition: this blog doesn’t usually advertise events in advance (or ever) – but this event is different. The Freedom to Write Campaign group is organising an (almost) International Women’s Day Reading, hosted by Staccato Literary … Continue reading →

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Taking the Plunge (DLR Libraries)

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Lia Mills

TAKING THE PLUNGE is an anthology of writing across several genres commissioned by DLR libraries from new and established local writers. The book was edited by Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin. A series of lunchtime readings – with music – will run on Tuesdays … Continue reading →

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More Events

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Lia Mills

I’ll be reading with John Kelly at the Dublin Writers’ Festival on Saturday 17th May @ 2pm in Smock Alley http://bit.ly/1lgtOzZ  The event will be chaired by Mick Heaney. Don’t be puzzled by the photo –  I’m replacing Patrick O’Keeffe, … Continue reading →

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Stinging Fly Launch

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Lia Mills

The Writers’ Centre was jammed to the rafters for the launch of the latest issue of The Stinging Fly.  Declan Meade talked about the transition to Tom Morris’s stewardship and introduced the issue’s featured poet, Dimitra Xidous, whose first collection … Continue reading →

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Upcoming events: Irish Writers’ Centre & Stinging Fly

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Lia Mills

There will be a reading from the latest issue of The Stinging Fly on Thursday March 27th in the Irish Writers’ Centre at 7pm. The Fly is  also running a special subscription offer until St Patrick’s Day: a  one-year subscriptions – both Irish and international … Continue reading →

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News & Links

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Lia Mills

Well.  Fallen, my new novel, has finally left the building.  It’s due out from Penguin Ireland in June 2014. Here’s a link to the catalogue listing: http://www.penguincatalogue.co.uk/hi/general/title.html?titleId=19349&imprintId=1158&catalogueId=256 On the subject of links, the online journal Spolia has posted an abridged version of … Continue reading →

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Dalkey Book Festival 2013 (Friday 14th – Sunday 16th June)

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Lia Mills

FRIDAY: Robert Fisk, in conversation with Pat Kenny (Church of the Assumption, Castle Street) It was raining hard in Dalkey on Friday evening, water splashing back from the pavement, people scudding along under umbrellas, not even peeking at passing celebrities.  … Continue reading →

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“For This: Poems for Our Ireland” (A session at PN11)

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Lia Mills

At a Saturday afternoon session of the 2011 Poetry Now Festival in the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire, sixteen readers, some of them poets participating in the festival, and some invited notables, were invited to read a poem that reflects … Continue reading →

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Where the Shoe Pinches

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Lia Mills

Last night I went to a rehearsed reading of Where the Shoe Pinches by John Mc Clelland, directed by Conall Morrison (Theatre Artist in Residence) @ the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire. Introducing the reading, Conall Morrison described Where the … Continue reading →

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Peregrine Readings

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Lia Mills

I’m going to be reading with Carlo Gébler at the Irish Writers’ Centre (19 Parnell Square Dublin 1) on Thursday 18th November at 7.30 pm. The event will be chaired by June Considine. It’s part of the Peregrine Series of … Continue reading →

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