I do like to be beside the seaside! Journalist, author and publican of the infamous John B’s bar in Listowel, Billy Keane talks about the need to celebrate home towns, and entertaining Maeve and Gordon during Writers’ Week.

At Home in the World. Anne Griffin, Zoe Miller and Jamie O’Connell talk to Katherine McSharry about Maeve Binchy’s influence on writing in Ireland.

Crime Begins at Home. Sam Blake, Andrea Mara and Brian McGilloway tell Andrea Carter why so many crime novels start with a domestic setting.

Liz Nugent in conversation with Oliver Callan

Best-selling author Irish Liz Nugent talks to award-winning impressionist and noted Maeve Binchy fan, Oliver Callan.

LUNCH

You May Not Know This, But...  Special guest Paul Johnston, the British Ambassador to Ireland, shares his love for Maeve Binchy's writing and her outlook on life.

Feeling at Home with Writing. Melatu Uche Okorie, Kevin Curran and Olha Khoroshevska talk to Caroline Erskine about interpreting ‘home’ in contemporary Ireland.

This Must be the Place. Sarah Binchy, Jan Carson and John Patrick McHugh discuss Ireland’s international reputation for short story writing with chair Niall MacMonagle.

Cecelia Ahern in conversation with Edel Coffey

Internationally-loved author Cecelia Ahern talks to author and journalist Edel Coffey about her inspirations and catching her characters “as they fall”!

Overheard... by Colm O’Regan

Acclaimed author, comedian, and obsessive earwigger Colm O’Regan explains how ‘Maevesdropping’ creates comedy gold!