Tipperary Reads Festival

Joseph O’Connor launched the 2010 Tipperary Reads Festival in Thurles Library, The Source on Saturday 17th July. This is the third year of the festival, which is going from strength to strength. Joe delighted the large crowd with a reading from his award winning novel Star of the Sea which is the focus novel for this year’s festival. It has proven a very popular read with Tipperary Libraries members; in fact it was the most borrowed title for the month of June.

L- R: Lorraine Treacy (Thurles library), Joseph O’Connor, Marie Murphy ( Chairman of Tipperary Joint Libraries Committee) and Martin Maher (County Librarian).

The reading was followed by a question and answer session, when readers were given the opportunity to pose all those burning questions they had been dying to ask. As well as answering questions relating to Star of the Sea, Joe also gave advice to aspiring writers on a variety of subjects including how to get published.

Joe will be returning to Tipperary Libraries for a number of discussion sessions on Friday 26th & Saturday 27th November. For more details log on to www.tipperarylibraries.ie