Hinterland Festival 2023

Welcome to Hinterland Festival 2023. You can browse all events and book tickets below, or view the programme schedule here.

Find out more about our Authors & Artists. And be sure to check out our LitCrawl events and 'Other Things to Do' during the Festival

Ciarán Wallace

Ronan McGreevy

Siobhra Aiken

Catriona Crowe

Leanne McCormick and Elaine Farrell

TypeTrail Launch

Film: Pray for our Sinners

Liam McNiffe

Ultan Courtney

Cécile Chemin

Paul Rouse

Liz Gillis

John MacKenna and Katie Jaccques

Rockfield House

John MacKenna

Zak Moradi and Matthew Spangler

Gerry Murphy

Katie O’Donoghue

T.J. McIntyre and Senator Malcolm Byrne

Alice Ryan

Zak Moradi

Ellen Ryan

John Boyne

Colin Bateman

Tom Dunne

Anne Griffin

Famous Five Treasure Hunt

Liz Nugent and Jane Casey

Adrian Duncan

Roger McGough

Shane Hegarty

Hinterland Festival 2023

Ciarán Wallace

Rescuing the Written Record: the virtual reconstruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland

Event 1

Thursday 22 June 2023, 11am

Venue: Courthouse

Ronan McGreevy

Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP

Event 2

Thursday 22 June 2023, 12.30pm

Venue: Courthouse

Siobhra Aiken

The ‘Spiritual Wounds’ of the Irish Civil War

Event 3

Thursday 22 June 2023, 2pm

Venue: Courthouse

Catriona Crowe

The Decade of Centenaries: A Retrospect

Event 4

Thursday 22 June 2023, 3.30pm

Venue: Courthouse

Leanne McCormick and Elaine Farrell

The Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

Event 5

Thursday 22 June 2023, 5pm

Venue: Courthouse

TypeTrail Launch

Event 6

Thursday 22 June 2023, 7pm

Venue: Church of Ireland

Film: Pray for our Sinners

Event 7

Thursday 22 June 2023, 8pm

Venue: Courthouse

Liam McNiffe

1916: One Rising, many views

Event 8

Friday 23 June 2023, 11am

Venue: Courthouse

Ultan Courtney

Who killed Thomas Hodgett?

Event 9

Friday 23 June 2023, 12.30pm

Venue: Courthouse

Cécile Chemin

The Military Service Pensions Archive: a Unique Historical and Personal Legacy

Event 10

Friday 23 June 2023, 2pm

Venue: Courthouse

Paul Rouse

Sport in Modern Irish Life

Event 11

Friday 23 June 2023, 3.30pm

Venue: Courthouse

Liz Gillis

The Red Cow Murders and the Civil War in South Dublin

Event 12

Friday 23 June 2023, 5pm

Venue: Courthouse

John MacKenna and Katie Jaccques

The Music of Leonard Cohen

Event 13

Friday 23 June 2023, 7.30pm

Venue: Courthouse

Rockfield House

Event 14

Friday 23 June 2023, 7.30pm

Venue: Rockfield House

John MacKenna

Leonard Cohen, an Absent Friend

Event 15

Saturday 24 June 2023, 11am

Venue: Church of Ireland

Zak Moradi and Matthew Spangler

Adapting Life Begins in Leitrim for stage

Event 16

Saturday 24 June 2023, 11am

Venue: Courthouse

Gerry Murphy

Climate change and Ireland