Ballymun Library Book Club discusses Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession. Rónán will join the meeting at the start to answer questions and read from the book before leaving the readers to discuss the novel among themselves.
If you wish to enquire about joining the book club please contact Ballymun Library at ballymunlibrary@dublincity.ie
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This a free Webinar with Rónán Hession hosted by journalist Edel Coffey. Fingal Libraries are delighted to present a reading by Rónán Hession followed by questions and answers during this free online talk.
Rónán Hession is an Irish writer based in Dublin. Leonard and Hungry Paul has been nominated for a number of prizes, including the Irish Novel of the Year and the British Book Award for Best Debut. Rónán has also been longlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards for Short Story of the Year. Rónán’s second novel, Panenka, will be published in May 2021.
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One Dublin One Book presents Rónán Hesssion, aka Mumblin’ Deaf Ro, in conversation with Leagues O’Toole about his music, writing and creativity. Together they will explore Rónán’s transition from song writing, to novel writing and the power of music as a source of inspiration. We will also be treated to performances by Rónán, with songs from his three albums: Senor, My Friend; The Herring and the Brine; and the Choice Music Prize-nominated Dictionary Crimes.
Rónán Hession is an Irish writer based in Dublin. His debut novel Leonard and Hungry Paul chosen as the 2021 One Dublin One Book was published by Bluemoose Books in the UK and by Melville House Books in the US. Leonard and Hungry Paul has been nominated for a number of prizes, including the Irish Novel of the Year and the British Book Award for Best Debut. Rónán has also been longlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards for Short Story of the Year. Rónán’s second novel, Panenka, will be published in May 2021.
Leagues O’Toole is a writer, music promoter, presenter and arts curator. He is the author of the 2006 book The Humours of Planxty, former presenter and researcher of the influential No Disco music tv show, and former publisher and editor of Foggy Notions magazine. He is currently the managing director of Foggy Notions Live, promoting concerts in Dublin and around Ireland as well as producing one-off online events and festivals.
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The Central Library Book Club discusses Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession. Rónán will join the meeting at the start to answer questions and read from the book before leaving the readers to discuss the novel among themselves.
If you wish to enquire about joining the book club please contact Central Library at centrallibrary@dublincity.ie
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We are all interconnected through shared experiences, languages, and vulnerabilities. With poetry that is always in conversation with other poets and artists, Bebe Ashley, Seán Hewitt and Richard Scott capture our capacity for despair and our need for kindness. Their vivid and unique work explores how to make space, in a fraught and difficult world, for love, freedom and joy.
Join Bebe, Seán, Richard as they read from their collections and speak with Rosamund Taylor during this event brought to you by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Libraries.
Bebe Ashley lives in Belfast. She is an AHRC-funded PhD candidate at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry where she is working on a collection of poetry that charts her progress towards qualifying as a British Sign Language interpreter. Her work can be found in Prototype’s Intertitles, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Poetry Jukebox and The Tangerine. Her debut poetry collection, Gold Light Shining, was published by Banshee Press in October 2020.
Seán Hewitt is a poet, lecturer and literary critic. His debut collection, Tongues of Fire (Cape, 2020), was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. In 2019, he won an Eric Gregory Award, and he is also the winner of the Resurgence Prize, 2017. His memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, will be published in 2022 by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Penguin Press in the USA.
Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. His publications include Soho (Faber & Faber, 2018). Recent works include ‘Woman Peeling Turnips; A Portrait of my Father’, an eighteen-part poem written in response to his residency at Southwark Park Galleries and broadcast on Resonance FM; and ‘Glasgow Green Redux’, commissioned by The National Poetry Library and The Edwin Morgan Trust to celebrate Edwin Morgan’s centenary. Richard’s poetry has been translated into German and French. He teaches poetry at The Faber Academy.
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RTÉ Radio 1’s Book on One is delighted to be opening its forthcoming new season of books read on radio with Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession read by actor Emmet Kirwan and produced by Clíodhna Ní Anluain. Excerpts will be broadcast weekday nights at 11.20am from Monday to Friday at a date to be announced soon, and will available to be also enjoyed on the RTÉ Book on one website for one month following the first broadcast of each episode. See: https://www.rte.ie/radio1/book-on-one/
Join us for our flagship event to celebrate Leonard and Hungry Paul. Author Rónán Hession will be in conversation with arts journalist Nadine O’Regan about writing his debut novel about two friends trying to find their place in the world. Excerpts from the book will be performed by actor Emmet Kirwan. There will be music performances by Irish folk singer Brigid Mae Power.
Leonard and Hungry Paul was published in 2019 by Bluemoose Books and has been nominated for several awards including the Irish Novel of the Year and the British Book Award for Best Debut. The novel is about those uncelebrated people who have the ability to change the world, not by effort or force, but through their appreciation of all that is special and overlooked in life and has become a word-of-mouth hit among readers.
Rónán Hession is from Dublin and has also been longlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards for Short Story of the Year. His second novel Panenka will be published in May 2021. As Mumblin’ Deaf Ro, he has released three albums of storytelling songs. His third album Dictionary Crimes was nominated for the Choice Music Prize for Irish album of the year.
Brigid Mae Power is a singer songwriter. Recently signing to Fire Records, Power released the surely autobiographical and acclaimed album ‘Head Above The Water’ in 2020 which was Rough Trade’s ‘Album Of The Month’. The third album from the celebrated Irish singer songwriter is a coming of age opus featuring a ground-breaking amalgamation of traditional folk and country – an engaging blend of strings, bouzouki, piano and Power’s distinctive vocal make it a beautiful body of work.
Emmet Kirwan is an Irish actor, playwright and screenwriter. He is known for starring in RTÉ2’s Sarah & Steve and for writing and starring in the 2015 play, and 2018 movie version of Dublin Oldschool. Other credits include parts in Ella Enchanted, ’71 and Inside I’m Dancing.
Nadine O’Regan is an award-winning Irish journalist, broadcaster and podcaster. Editor of the Business Post Magazine, the culture magazine which is published weekly with the Business Post newspaper, she is also a columnist and arts writer with the publication, as well as its head of podcasting. A cover presenter on RTÉ Radio 1 (Late Date), Nadine has presented shows on Phantom FM (The Kiosk) and Today FM (Songs in the Key of Life). Nadine hosts the interview podcast My Roots Are Showing.
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Cabra Library Book Club discusses Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession. Rónán will join the meeting at the start to answer questions and read from the book, before leaving the readers to discuss the novel among themselves.
If you wish to enquire about joining the book club please contact Cabra Library at cabralibrary@dublincity.ie
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Rónán Hession and Nancy Pearl discuss Leonard and Hungry Paul
Join us for a special conversation between beloved rock star librarian Nancy Pearl and Rónán Hession, whose novel Leonard and Hungry Paul is the 2021 One Dublin One Book selection.
Did you know that The Seattle Public Library started the original ‘one book, one city’ with a programme called ‘If All of Seattle Read the Same Book’ (better known now as ‘Seattle Reads’) back in 1998? The programme, created by Nancy Pearl, has been a huge success, spreading throughout the United States as well as to cities around the world. For the first time ever, Seattle is partnering with another city to celebrate their ‘one book’ selection and to talk a bit about why shared reading experiences are so powerful. The Dublin One City One Book programme (now One Dublin One Book) began in 2006 with Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two Birds and has featured over the years books by Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, James Joyce, Edna O’Brien, Christine Dwyer Hickey and many others.
This event is presented in partnership with Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle City of Literature, The Seattle Public Library Foundation and Elliott Bay Book Company, with thanks to author series sponsors the Gary and Connie Kunis Foundation, and to media sponsor The Seattle Times. This event will be pre-recorded and streamed on SPL’s YouTube channel and Dublin City of Literature YouTube channel.
Nancy Pearl regularly speaks about the importance and pleasure of reading at libraries, literacy organizations, and community groups around the world. She can be found on NPR’s Morning Edition and KWGS-FM in Tulsa, Oklahoma talking about her favorite books. Her monthly television show on the Seattle Channel, Book Lust with Nancy Pearl, features interviews with authors, poets, and other literary figures. Among her many honors are the 2011 Librarian of the Year Award from Library Journal and the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Nancy is the creator of the internationally recognized program If All of Seattle Read the Same Book, and was the inspiration for the Archee McPhee “Librarian Action Figure.” Nancy is a best-selling author, librarian, and literary critic, but first and foremost, she is a reader and has spent her life promoting reading as one of the most beneficial and joyful experiences anyone can have.
Rónán Hession is an Irish writer based in Dublin. His debut novel Leonard and Hungry Paul was published by Bluemoose Books in the UK and by Melville House Books in the US. Leonard and Hungry Paul has been nominated for a number of prizes, including the Irish Novel of the Year and the British Book Award for Best Debut. Rónán has also been longlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards for Short Story of the Year. Rónán’s second novel, Panenka, will be published in May 2021. As Mumblin’ Deaf Ro, he has released three albums of storytelling songs. His third album Dictionary Crimes was nominated for the Choice Music Prize for Irish album of the year.
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RDS Library and One Dublin One Book present an interview by award-winning writer Donal Ryan with Rónán Hession, about becoming a writer, allowing time for creativity in a busy life and the inspiration behind Leonard and Hungry Paul, this year’s One Dublin One Book choice. This event is part of the RDS Library Speakers Series in association with One Dublin One Book.
Donal Ryan, from Nenagh, Co Tipperary, is the author of five number one-bestselling novels and a short story collection. He has won several awards for his fiction, including four Irish Book Awards, the Guardian First Book Award, and the European Union Prize for Literature, and he has twice been nominated for the Booker Prize. His work has been adapted for stage and screen and is published in over twenty languages. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.
Rónán Hession is an Irish writer based in Dublin. His debut novel Leonard and Hungry Paul has been nominated for a number of prizes, including the Irish Novel of the Year and the British Book Award for Best Debut. Rónán has also been longlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards for Short Story of the Year. Rónán’s second novel, Panenka, will be published in May 2021. As Mumblin’ Deaf Ro, he has released three albums of storytelling songs. His third album Dictionary Crimes was nominated for the Choice Music Prize for Irish album of the year.
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Our City Our Books invites readers to discuss Leonard and Hungry Paul at this book club meeting. Author Rónán Hession will join the meeting at the start to answer questions and read from the book, before leaving readers to discuss the novel among themselves. Book club attendees can avail of a free copy of the book, posted to their address, but please note that places are limited.
Leonard and Hungry Paul are two quiet friends who see the world differently. Using humour, stints of silence and board games, they try to steer their way through the maelstrom that is the 21st century.
Described as “the book we all need at the moment”, this charming novel celebrates those underappreciated people whose gentleness and appreciation of the small things of life have the power to change the world.
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Join poet Nessa O’Mahony on Poetry Day for this poetry workshop organised by the National Library of Ireland exploring the themes from this year’s One Dublin One Book choice, Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession.
As this will be an interactive workshop, places are limited.
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Leonard and Hungry Paul will feature as part of the DCU Book Club in April. The DCU Book Club is a virtual monthly book club for DCU staff with over 165 members.
A Live event with writer Rónán Hession takes place online on Thursday, April 29th at 7.30pm. It will be moderated by John McDonough, University Librarian.
DCU Staff can register here: https://www.dcu.ie/president/our-dcu-virtual-book-club
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This month Our City Our Books is celebrating the One Dublin One Book 2021 selection, Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession.
Attendees of this special book club session can avail of a free copy of the book, posted to their address, but please note that places are limited.
Leonard and Hungry Paul are two quiet friends who see the world differently. Using humour, stints of silence and board games, they try to steer their way through the maelstrom that is the 21st century.
Described as “the book we all need at the moment”, this charming novel celebrates those underappreciated people whose gentleness and appreciation of the small things of life have the power to change the world.
Free
