The award-winning Green & Blue explores the painful and humorous realities faced by the individuals who patrolled the border during the height of the conflict on the island of Ireland.

We have a brilliant theatre pairing for you, here. Two plays: A Bolt from d’Blue and For the Love of Mary are both single-hander pieces, of roughly an hour, performed by their writers.

In this talk, Dr Deaglán Ó Donghaile (Liverpool John Moores University) discusses Oscar Wilde’s 1898 poem; The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Irish poet and author, Pascal O’Loughlin, and National Poetry Librarian, Chris McCabe, lead an informal writing and reading workshop inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses.