Date: Thursday 28th May 2026

Venue: Kerry Writers’ Museum

Time: 8 PM

Join us for Listowel Rambling House where stories are shared, music is played, and everyone’s welcome. This much-loved evening celebrates Irish culture through live traditional music, storytelling, and the kind of humour that brings people together.?It’s a celebration of community, heritage, and the joy of a good yarn or a lively tune. Bring a friend, bring the family, or come as you are for a night that honours the old ways and keeps them alive.

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Date: Thursday 28th May 2026

Venue: Leaving outside The Listowel Arms Hotel

Time: 7.30 PM

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Date: Thursday 28th May 2026

Venue: John B. Keane’s Pub

Time: 6 PM

All Roads Lead To Where You Are
From Bishopstown to the great stages of America, Cork musician Joe Philpott, founding member of Ruby horse, has lived a life steeped in sound, song, and stories. His new memoir, ‘All Roads Lead To Where You Are’,traces that journey from suburban bedrooms and backroom rehearsals to recording sessions with George Harrison and the long highways of the USA.A lyrical exploration of music, migration, and memory, ‘All Roads Lead To Where You Are’ is a story of chasing songs, chasing dreams, and finding your way home again.

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Date: Thursday 28th May 2026

Venue: St John’s Theatre & Arts Centre

Time: 3 PM

A performative, interactive bi-lingual reading of a new novel/play by Dic Walsh with actor Timmy Creed
Ger Power returns to a fishing village in the Gaeltacht where his brother died by suicide 10 years earlier. He uncovers a web of gentrifiers, environmentalists and drug dealers that seem to be manifesting the destruction of the village’s native culture and fishing industry and are also potentially responsible for his brother’s death. Though the real causes for that may be closer to home…

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Date: Thursday 28th May 2026

Venue: Seanchaí- Kerry Writers’ Museum

Time: 12 PM

Hard Sums and Soft Stories

As part of a family genealogy project, remarkable literary discovery emerged: a collection of short stories written over eighty years ago by Professor Martin J. Newell (Máirtín Ó Tnúthail), affectionately known to family and friends as ‘Brod’. The stories were found among the papers of his son, Fr Eamonn Newell, whose wish was that they would one day be published.

Dating over eighty years ago, these stories were written after Brod had embarked on a course in short story writing with a London based publishing house. We are therefore delighted to fulfil Eamonn’s wish and present this collection of stories by Brod, under his pseudonym Dermot L.Martyn, together with our genealogy findings which give context to his life. We are therefore pleased to bring ‘Hard Sums and Soft Stories’ to publication.

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