Author of Snowflake, Louise Nealon in conversation with Rick O’Shea with dramatised readings by actors Steve Hall and Caroline Quinn, and music by Maija Sofia.

This event took place in the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin 2 on 18th April 2024.
One Dublin One Book is a Dublin City Council initiative supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, which encourages people to read a book connected with Dublin during April. The 2024 One Dublin One Book title is Snowflake by Louise Nealon (Manilla Press UK)

Filmed by David Knox (NoName Video Production Services)

Recording of the One Dublin One Book event Country Ways – The blessing of houses, water divining, traditional healing and other customs appear in Snowflake. Author, Louise Nealon will discuss this more with Dr. Garrett Fagan, UCD while Dr. Kelly Fitzgerald, UCD will also explain the origins of such traditions, and their relevance over time.

This event took place in the National Library, 7-8 Kildare St, Dublin 2, on 3rd April 2024.

One Dublin One Book is a Dublin City Council initiative supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, which encourages people to read a book connected with Dublin during April. The 2024 One Dublin One Book title is Snowflake, by Louise Nealon (Manilla Press UK)

Filmed by David Knox (NoName Video Production Services)

Garrett Fagan has taught at universities in Dublin and at Warwick University in the UK. He has interests in Renaissance literature, legal – literary relations and Anglo Irish writing. Garrett is teaching a course of four classes in April at Pearse St Library on this year’s One Dublin One Book choice, Snowflake.

Prof Kelly Fitzgerald is the Head of the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore as well as the Head of Irish Folklore & Ethnology in the School. She graduated in folklore and early (medieval) Irish at University College Dublin and defended her doctoral dissertation in 2009. It was titled: Literary and Oral Interaction in Irish Folklore. She has written on the intellectual history and development of Irish folkloristics and archives amongst other aspects of folklore studies and oral history. She sits on the editorial board of Béaloideas, The Journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland. She is also Chairperson of ANU Productions and a Director of the National Folklore Foundation. Recently she directed the collecting of oral histories in the development phase of Dublin’s Tenement Museum. She is currently overseeing the collecting of a number oral history initiatives in social housing communities in Dublin.