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Mary Beckett: A Belfast Woman at Look North! Festival at the Linen Hall Library
Linen Hall Library, Belfast 17 Donegall Square North, Belfast, United KingdomThis event took place on the 25th February 2026. A video recording is now available to view on YouTube. Born 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. Supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. This event will be hosted by The Linen Hall Library, Belfast on 25th February at 1pm. Tickets £5. Booking details here.
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Fall, leaves, fall: a day of writing at the close of summer with Bernie McGill at Ballyeamon Barn, Cushendall
Ballyeamon Barn 127 Ballyeamon Road, Cushendall, Ballymena, Antrim, United KingdomSaturday 26th September 2026 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Near the time of the Autumn Equinox, as the days begin again to noticeably shorten, this writing day will be an opportunity to reflect, take stock, and write whatever is in your head that wants to be written. We will spend the day in the mellow setting of Ballyeamon Barn and in a community of fellow writers. We will read short extracts from published writers to generate ideas, and offer prompts and suggestions for stimulation. All levels of experience are welcome, from published writers to first-timers, poets, fiction and memoir writers alike. Come with writing materials and an open mind, prepared to write. Tea, coffee and lunch will be provided. Facilitator Bernie McGill is the author of novels The Watch House and The Butterfly Cabinet. She is the winner of the 2023 Edge Hill Prize for her short story collection This Train is For. She is a Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund and an Honorary member of the Linen Hall Library in which building her writing archive is held. Her work has been widely anthologised and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. She works as […]
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