Date:Thursday 28th May 2026

Venue:Youthreach Listowel

Time:Confined Event. Fully Booked.

Comic Book Artist, Mari Rolin, will lead a comic book workshop to explore storytelling through words and images.
Mari Rolin is a Brazilian comic book artist residing in Kerry. She’s one half of the team behind the webcomic Chaotic Neutral (2020) and part of both the editorial and artistic team of OPArt, nominated for the Angoulême Alternative Comics Award in 2024. Mari created zines and featured in several comic book anthologies/magazines like Café Espacial #20 (2022), HOME (2022), and Failure to Launch (2023, Iron Comics); she is also the artist in the indie graphic novel When Language Fails (2023). When not drawing Mari can be found reading, writing, teaching or playing with her cats.

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Date:Thursday 28th May 2026

Venue:Listowel Library

Time:Confined Event. Fully Booked.

Déanfaidh Áine Ní Ghlinn céardlann filíochta sa leabharlann le grúpaí ó Ghaelscoil Lios Tuathail. Cabhróidh sí leis na páistí dánta simplí a scríobh agus saothar ealaíne spraíúil a chur leo.
Áine Ní Ghlinn will deliver poetry writing and illustration workshops with children from Gaelscoil LiosTuathail.
File, drámadóir agus scríbhneoir do dhaoine óga í Áine Ní Ghlinn. Tá 40 leabhar scríofa aici – pictiúrleabhair, drámaí do pháistí, scéalta & úrscéalta do léitheoirí óga agus do dhéagóirí, cnuasaigh filíochta do pháistí agus do dhaoine fásta. Ainmníodh í mar an séú Laureate na nÓg, 2020-2023. Tá sí ina ball d’Aosdána.
Áine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer. She has written forty books, including picture books for very young readers, stories and novels for children and teenagers and poetry collections for children and adults. She was named as Ireland’s sixth Laureate na nÓg, 2020-2023. She is a member of Aosdána.

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Venue:Scoil Réalta na Maidine

Time:Confined Event. Fully Booked.

Author Emma Larkin will show the pupils at Scoil Réalta na Maidine that reading and sport have a lot more in common that you might think, and that reading can actually help you level up on the pitch. The children will create their own story, as part of a team, using Emma’s secret trick: mapping out a plot using the positions on a Gaelic Football pitch!
Emma Larkin lives in Kerry with her husband, four children and dog. Emma is the author of the “Twin Power” series for O’Brien Press and the “Izzy’s Magical Adventures in Sport Series”. The third Twin Power book in the series, ‘Féile, A Twin Power Adventure’, was published in May 2025. Emma’s original inspiration to write her books was her grandmother, Maureen Hennebry, (née Cashman), who was on the Cork camogie team which won the All-Ireland Camogie Championship three times in row between 1939 and 1941. Emma hopes that the young people who read her books will be inspired to keep playing and reading and most importantly, to have fun in both of these pursuits.

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