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!
FESTiVAL EVENTS
Tiny Tales of Fairies and Bees
0-5 years | 45 mins | €10
11:30am | LCA Gallery Café
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.
Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Letters To A Monster
6+ years | Family Event | €9/€3
10am | Pugin Hall
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?
Children must be accompanied by an adult, tickets are required for children and adults.
A Towers and Tales, Tall Tales Extravaganza: Professor Twitt & Doctor Wotsit in The Search for Lizzy, the Legendary Lismore Castle Lake Monster!
6+ years | Family Event | €9/€3
4pm | Lismore Heritage Centre
Captivated by cryptids? Think monsters are simply marvelous? Join brainy Professor Twitt and her slightly brain-less sidekick Doctor Wotsit as they search for the slipperiest critter of all, Lizzy, the Legendary Lismore Castle Lake Monster!TM. Find out all about Irish spooks and ghouls, create your very own Lake Monster, and take part in the mythical creature game show, Alive, Extinct or Just Plain Freaky!
Presented by former Laureate na nÓg 2023-2026 Patricia Forde and children’s author & illustrator Alan Nolan.
Children must be accompanied by an adult, tickets are required for children and adults.
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.