Date: Saturday 30th May 2026

Venue: Plaza Hall

Time: 6 PM

Award-Winning Voices: Christine Dwyer Hickey & Andrew Miller In Conversation with Enda Wyley

One of Ireland’s most beloved literary voices, Christine Dwyer Hickey returns to Listowel and will be joined by Booker nominated and prize-winning author Andrew Miller. Together, these two celebrated writers explore themes of memory, love, and human resilience across time..They will be in conversation with poet Enda Wyley.
Christine Dwyer Hickey has published nine novels. The Narrow Land?won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Tatty was nominated for the Orange Prize and named one of the 50 Irish Novels of the Decade, while Last Train from Liguria was shortlisted for the Prix L’Européen de Littérature. Her latest novel, Our London Lives follows the captivating story of two Irish immigrants in England.

Andrew Miller’s latest novel, The Land in Winter, is set during the brutal winter of 1962–63, where two young marriages are tested amid a village slowly unravelling under the weight of isolation, secrets, and emotional strain. The event explores how memory, love, and human resilience endure across time, whether in a speculative future shaped by technology or a vividly rendered past grounded in lived experience.

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Venue: St John’s Theatre & Arts Centre

Time: 8 PM

Fifty years after his wrongful conviction, at the age of 74, Paddy is facing into his twilight years and wrestling with a thousand turbulent memories.

In Paddy he relives the journey that forever altered his destiny.

A one-man show, starring Don Wycherley as Paddy, the play is inspired by Paddy’s memoir Life After Life, a Guildford Four Memoir (2017).

Paddy is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of forgiveness, reminding us that the privilege of freedom and love, family and everyday life can restore us and mend the scars of even the most savage injustice.

Don Wycherley brings unflinching honesty, pathos and humour to his portrayal of Paddy, a man failed and scarred by a flawed system yet refusing to be defined by it.

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Date: Saturday 30th May 2026

Venue: Listowel Arms Hotel Main Room

Time: 8:30PM

The History of Money – Author, journalist, economist and podcast host David McWilliams  breaks down the mysteries of money, from how it’s created to why it’s such a powerful force in society. In his recent book, The History of Money, McWilliams takes us across the world, from the birthplace of money in ancient Babylon to the beginning of trade along the Silk Road, from Marrakech markets to Wall Street. Along the way, we meet a host of innovators, emperors, frauds, and speculators, who have disrupted society and transformed the way we live.

Whether you’re an economics novice or a seasoned expert, this event will leave you with a deeper

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Venue: Kilmorna Collection

Time: 6 PM

The raw bone: spoken word with Siobhán De Paor

An chnámh amh: filíocht ó béal le Siobhán De Paor
An ode to the mundane and the mystical in this spoken word performance.
There are invocations to the ancient archetypes and exposés of our contemporary capitalist story.
Siobhán’s pieces are bardic, epic and witty.
She speaks to the contradiction of the human experience in a call to spiritual activism and cultural reclamation.

Filíocht ó béal: Tá ómós go dtí an saoltach agus an naofacht sa léiriú seo.
Tá gairm chuig na haircitíop ársa agus nochtú ar an scéal chaipitleachais comhaimsirthe.
Filíocht na mbard atå i gceist atá éachtach agus tráthúil leis.
Déannann sí trácht ar codarsnacht an taithí dhaonna i glaoch ar gníomhaíocht spiorodálta agus athbheochan a dhéanamh ar ár gcultúr.

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