Free event but booking required: phone Mountmellick Library on 057 8624733 or email mountmellicklibrary@laoiscoco.ie
This year's One County, One Book is The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr. Across the festival Garrett will host writing, book club and schools events in Mountmellick and Portlaoise Libraries. See www.laois.ie/libraries for details.
Thursday 5th November, 11am: Garrett Carr visits Mountmellick Library for workshops and discussions with schools and writers' groups.
Garrett Carr is the son of a fisherman and grew up in Killybegs, Co. Donegal. His novel The Boy from the Sea was a Sunday Times Best Book of 2025, shortlisted for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award, the British Books Awards and won the Prix Littéraire des Ambassadeurs de la Francophonie en Irlande, 2026. It has been translated into over a dozen languages. His non-fiction The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He teaches Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University Belfast.
For more information on the Leaves Festival and the Laois Arts Programme contact The Arts Office
tel.: 057 866 4033/13
email: artsoff@laoiscoco.ie
For events at Dunamaise Arts Centre and St. Peter's Church of Ireland book online or call 057 866 3355.
For events at Laois Libraries, contact the Library branch. Contact details are on each event listing.