Talks & Tours

Colm Tóibín presents authors Sally Rooney, Lisa McInerney and Anthony Joseph who have have enjoyed considerable critical success and are clearly writers to watch in future.

Presenting a special Liverpool Irish Festival programme, The Guilty Feminist considers the noble goals of 21st centurty feminists and the paradoxes and insecurities which undermine them. This is their first time in Liverpool!

Two stalwarts of Irish literature – Sebastian Barry and Professor Roy Foster (Oxford) – in conversation as part of the Liverpool Literary Festival.

Colm Tóibín (Chancellor of University of Liverpool) reading – and in conversation – with James Naughtie (BBC) as part of the Liverpool Literary Festival.

Hughes draws on Van Morrison’s work to examine VM’s representation of Belfast and offer insight into his originality, innovation and song writing artistry.