Lit Crawl Sunday 29 June 2025

In this shamelessly partisan racetrack-cum-ghost train ride through the field, with pit stops via a multi-genre cast from Samuel Beckett to Anne Frank and Mark Strand to Seamus O'Rourke, the speaker will propose nine feline theses on 'staying alive' as a (death-in-) life writer.'

Monica McGuinness, local author and winner of the Maria Edgeworth Short Story Competition, 2024 will read from her debut novel, "Crowfield House" published by Poolbeg Fiction in June 25. She is a member of the aSpired Writers Group in Kells, Co Meath. She also hosts a podcast of her short stories, Fearfold and co-hosts another podcast, about writing, aSpired Writers.

What started out as a comic monologue quickly developed into something more cathartic, a remembrance of a battle with depression, and of coming out the other side. Mick Jordan, a writer and film maker living in Kells, presents Letter to my 16-Year-Old Self. Mick explains the how and why of its making and tells of the lived experience behind it. It premiered at last year’s Meath Film Festival in the Solstice Arts Centre - where it had in fact been filmed six months earlier.

They’re back! Having got through the evils of Covid, Kells Heritage Theatre return with a determination to offer theatre that entertains and will maybe make you think about the human condition in these challenging times in ways you haven’t before. Perhaps, Samuel Beckett may fit the bill...

They get together on Sunday morning. They rehearse. They’re ready to perform on Sunday afternoon. To mark her 250th anniversary our troupe of actors will perform two ten-minute versions of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice this year. One has been adapted by a human being, one by AI. See if you can figure out which is which.

Áine McGarry will share stories, poems and photographs from her book 'Tales from an Irish Thatch'~Trohanny Cottage. Trohanny Cottage is a 1800's listed thatched cottage near Moynalty, Kells with a fascinating history and restoration story and one of few remaining examples of an intact vernacular Irish cottage left in the country today.

All welcome to this fun and uplifting Ukelele get together. They started out in 2019, still going strong, and always on the lookout for new members.

Rhythm and Poetry are the fundamental building blocks of music. Rap intricately fuses these two qualities to deliver honest, unfiltered storytelling and social commentary. Joining XCALIBER will be fellow artists J.F.O. and objectsnwo.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of P.G. Wodehouse we present a rehearsed reading of the consummate Jeeves and Wooster short story, ‘The Purity of the Turf’. There’s a lot of money gone down on the local sports day at Twing Hall. But there are murky shenanigans afoot. Will Bertie (with the assistance of Jeeves, obvs) come out on top?

This presentation is an exploration of how mental illness has been portrayed through movies and will delve into a selection of movies and how some of them have positively and negatively impacted on how the public perceive what mental disorder means.

Maggie Smith takes us on a journey with this reading from her book, a collection of James Tevlin’s surviving poems combined with the history of a turbulent time. These poems and rhymes provide an insight into the thoughts, feelings, and passions of the man who became known as The Billywood Poet. Rediscover the political players of the time, how the great famine shaped the landscape and just what did happen to the almost mythical Tenison's Boar...

'Sweet Bird of Youth' performed by Joan Powell & directed by Mick Roban. A monologue, about a woman in her sixties who is talking to her neighbour who is unseen, who has come to borrow some Birthday Candles. 'Another Prick in the Wall' looks at a President trying to find the right people to build a wall for him. Performed by Paula Brady, Raymond Cullen, Patricia Ronayne & Pat Farrell. Written and directed by Mick Roban.

'Songs in the Round' session with Ollie Cole, Carl Gillic, Podge Sandwich, Cathal McCabe, Michael Brunnock, and special guests from the Studio 109 songwriting group of 2025, to wrap the 2025 Hinterland Festival.