During the month of October I’ve been busy travelling around the country as part of the Children’s Book Festival, visiting Libraries and schools in Westmeath, Offaly, Mayo, and Cork.
Here’s a picture of the display done by pupils in Scoil Naomh Eltin in Kinsale where I had a really enjoyable visit.
World Book Day, Shannon library
As part of World Book Day 2019 I went on a tour of libraries in County Clare. It was wonderful to meet so many enthusiastic young readers, while their teachers and the library staff made sure that everything ran smoothly at each venue. All l told a great couple of days.
World Book Day was less hectic this year than in 2016, when I wrote One Good turn, the Irish entry for World Book DayA. World Book Day 2017 was still an active day, however, and I had the pleasure of meeting pupils in Killicomaine Junior High School in Portadown.
I gave a talk to Transition Year students in Blackrock College on writing historical fiction, drawing on themes from Friend or Foe and One Good Turn, with particular emphasis on the topic of looting during the 1916 Rising.
The students were engaged and had lots of questions, and I even had my picture taken beside the plaque to the infamous Ross O’Carroll-Kelly!
Blackrock College Transition Year talk
Brian Gallagher 