Ireland’s seventh Laureate na nÓg (2023-2026), Patricia Forde is an award winning children and young people’s writer from Galway. She has written over twenty books, from picture books to novels and her work has been translated extensively. She is bi-lingual, writing in English and in Irish. She loves words and making it up as she goes along!
EVENTS
Tiny Tales of Fairies and Bees
11.30a.m. | 45 mins | Gallery Café | for age 0-5 yrs
Join Patricia Forde in the joy of all things that are great, but small. She will preview her newest picturebook Island of Bees and delight our youngest booklovers with her writer’s bag of tiny tricks.
Letters To A Monster
10a.m. | Pugin Hall | Family Event | for age 6+
Do you know any Monsters? Ever met one? Heard one? Written to one? What do Monsters read? Patricia Forde has all the answers and after reading her story Letters To A Monster, she will share her top tips for monster correspondence and help you craft a monstrously masterful letter to a Monster? Perhaps even Feeney the Towers and Tales castle Monster? Or Lizzie the Lismore Castle Lake Monster?
RECENT AWARDS:
Her most recent picture book, Letters To A Monster (illustrated by Sarah Warburton) has been nominated for numerous awards, including the An Post Irish Book Awards and KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards.