Quality and diversity to the fore as Cúirt remains online for 2021

Marion Keyes, Pulitzer prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, Booker winner Douglas Stuart and Louise O’Neill are taking part in this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Running online from April 21-25, it will explore how we connect with each other, as well as with landscape and history in a changed world. It will also host what its Director Sasha de Buyl describes as “a series of essential conversations for Ireland at this time”.

The festival will officially open on April 22 when six writers, storytellers and musicians will reflect on their experiences of finding, losing and maintaining connection during the past year.

The Times were Grand in Size and We Were Small, a night of word and music, features Oein DeBhairduin, Arnold Thomas Fanning, Una-Minh Kavanagh, Maija Sofia, Suad Aldarra and Lisa McInerney. Louise Bruton will MC. That’s at 8.30pm on April 22.

A major Cúirt commission will see writers from opposite sides of the globe delve into the powerful connections between Irish and te reo Mâori, an Austronesian language mostly spoken in New Zealand’s North Island.

Writers from the two cultures will explore connections, landscapes, mythologies and colonial histories in this event on April 25 at 2pm. Participants include Micheál Ó Conghaile, Máire Uí Dhufaigh, Hana O’Regan and Charisma Rangipunga.

A preview event, Field Work, in which Manchán Magan and Kerri Ní Dochartaigh are in conversation with nature writer Paul Kingsnorth will take place on March 21 at 2pm as part of Culture Ireland St Patrick’s Day celebrations. They will discuss our relationship with the land.

Conversations on Craft will feature Max Porter with Sara Baume on April 20 at 5pm, followed by Maggie Nelson with Gail McConnell at 6.30pm. Tishani Doshi with Jess Traynor will be on April 21 at 5pm. This webinar-style celebration of writing will include a live Q&A.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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