Schools' Programme

Age 8+ years Finding Hope (Gill Books) is a heartwarming story about family and friendship, coping with loss and loneliness, activism and the environment, and the ways we try to find meaning in our lives when we feel lost. Students will join author Sinéad Moriarty to discuss the many themes explored in her latest book.  […]

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Age 8+ years When Anna is sent to stay with her dad at Fairy Hill, strange happenings make her begin to wonder if the fairies she’s heard about are real. And if they are, could her little brother Jack be in real danger? Students will join beloved children’s storyteller Marita Conlon-McKenna for a reading and […]

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Age 8 – 10 years Join best-selling children’s author (and creator of Ross O’Carroll Kelly) Paul Howard for an action-packed event around Aldrin Adams and the Legend of Nemeswiss (Puffin). Aldrin is an ordinary boy with the most EXTRAORDINARY, stinkiest super-power! Months have past since Aldrin discovered when he eats CHEESE before bedtime, he can […]

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This event is now booked out. Trained by national poetry organisation, Apples & Snakes, in their Poets In Education Scheme, Inua Ellams further developed his skills as facilitator by travelling the world and running accessible classes for educational, arts and corporate organisations from Malaysia to Australia, Libya to South Africa. He has worked with all […]

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Age 8+ years Éanna Ní Lamhna has always loved the unusual and the surprising, the weird and the wonderful in our wildlife! Students will join Éanna to explore Wonders of the Wild (The O’Brien Press), in which she sends readers on a wonderful wildlife adventure, inviting us to notice the amazing things around us when […]

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