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SUMMARY:Mary Beckett: A Belfast Woman at Look North! Festival at the Linen Hall Library
DESCRIPTION:This event took place on the 25th February 2026. A video recording is now available to view on YouTube. \nBorn in 1926\, Mary Beckett is regarded as one of Belfast’s finest writers. Widely acclaimed for her novels and short stories\, especially A Belfast Woman\, A Literary Woman and Give Them Stones\, her work did much to capture and explore the lives and experiences of women\, especially working-class women. To mark the centenary of her birth\, The Linen Hall Library in partnership with Look North!\, brings together two acclaimed Belfast writers\, Anne Devlin and Wendy Erskine\, to talk about Beckett’s work and her enduring legacy. This session will be chaired by award-winning novelist and short story writer\, Bernie McGill. \nSupported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. \nThis event will be hosted by The Linen Hall Library\, Belfast on 25th February at 1pm. Tickets £5. Booking details here.
URL:https://berniemcgill.com/event/mary-beckett-a-belfast-woman-at-look-north-festival-at-the-linen-hall-library/
LOCATION:Linen Hall Library\, Belfast\, 17 Donegall Square North\, Belfast\, BT1 5GB\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Danielle McLaughlin In Conversation with Bernie McGill at Belfast Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning Irish author Danielle McLaughlin discusses her new novel\, Rituals\, with Bernie McGill. \nJoan is in the habit of living alone\, her days shaped by rituals and routines – some ordinary\, some less so. When she takes in a lodger\, they must learn to negotiate everything from a shared bathroom to the hazards of global warming. \nFollowing her acclaimed short-story collection Dinosaurs on Other Planets and debut novel The Art of Falling\, Rituals is a tender\, funny book about an obsessive mind – and the bravery involved in opening our hearts to change. \nDanielle McLaughlin’s short-story collection Dinosaurs on Other Planets was published in 2015 by The Stinging Fly Press. In 2019\, she was a Windham-Campbell Prize recipient\, and won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Her first novel\, The Art of Falling\, was published in 2021 by John Murray and was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2022.  In 2023 she was a recipient of a Markievicz Award. Her second novel\, Rituals\, is published by The Stinging Fly Press. \nBernie McGill is the 2023 winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her collection This Train is For. She is the author of two novels: The Watch House (nominated for the Ireland European Union Prize for Literature in 2019) and The Butterfly Cabinet (2010). Her short stories have been widely anthologised\, and her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. Her first short story collection\, Sleepwalkers (2013)\, was re-published in 2025 by No Alibis Press. \nBook tickets for this event on the Belfast Book Festival website. \nClick here for the full programme of events at Belfast Book Festival 2026 including readings\, panel discussions\, workshops and publishing advice. \nMany events are pay what you decide with a recommended ticket price of £12.50. \n 
URL:https://berniemcgill.com/event/danielle-mclaughlin-in-conversation-with-bernie-mcgill-at-belfast-book-festival/
LOCATION:Crescent Arts Centre\, 2-4 University Road\, BELFAST\, BT7 1NH\, United Kingdom
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