SCRIBES AT THE ROCK | SCRÍOBHAITHE AG BEÁR NA CARRAIGE

Rock Bar, Falls Road

Admission – £10
Pay at door (cash payment only). Doors open 3:30pm and close at 3:55pm. Places on a first come first served basis

Louise Kennedy grew up in Holywood, County Down, and worked as a chef before turning her skills to
writing. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed short story collection The End of the World is a Cul
de Sac (2021). Her debut novel Trespasses, set in Belfast in 1975, has been described by the Guardian
as ‘a novel distinguished by a quality rare in fiction at any time: a sense of utter conviction… a story
told with such compulsive attention to the textures of its world that every page feels like a moral and
intellectual event.’

Ricky Ross’s music has melded rock, pop, blues, folk music and Celtic soul. In this memoir he writes
movingly and with great wit about his formative years growing up in Dundee, his early forays into
music and the beginning and extraordinary success, fallout, and re-emergence of his band Deacon
Blue. He writes movingly and with great wit about the people and places that have meant the most to
him, as well as his relationship with faith, politics, and the ever-changing challenges of being a
musician.

Novelist & scriptwriter Damien Owens’s new novel, Duffy and Son, tells the story of Eugene, the
owner of a small-town hardware store as he meddles in the personal life of his 40-year-old, live-in
bachelor son, Jim. A quietly moving gem it is told with wry humour, tremendous heart, as well as a
strong sense of community, which celebrates the messiness of ordinary lives. ‘Funny, sweet, charming’
– Dara O’Briain. ‘Charming, warm, touching and funny’ – Marian Keyes

Beár na Carraige, Bóthar na bhFál

Louise Kennedy aníos in Ard Mhic Nasca, Co. an Dúin, agus d’oibrigh sí mar chócaire sular
thosaigh sí ag scríobh mar shlí bheatha. Is údar chnuasach gearrscéalta The End of the World is a Cul
de Sac (2021), í a fuair ardmholadh ó na léirmheastóirí. Rinne The Guardian cur síos ar an chéad
úrscéal s’aicisean, Trespasses, atá suite i mBéal Feirste in 1975, mar ‘a novel distinguished by a quality
rare in fiction at any time: a sense of utter conviction… a story told with such compulsive attention to
the textures of its world that every page feels like a moral and intellectual event.’

Meascán de rac-cheol, popcheol, na goirmeachaí, ceol na ndaoine agus anamcheol Ceilteach is ea ceol
Ricky Ross. Sna cuimhní cinn seo scríobhann sé go tochtmhar agus go han-tráthúil faoi na
luathbhlianta a chaith sé i nDún Dé agus é ag fás aníos, faoina chéad iarrachtaí ceol a ghabháil, faoin
tús agus a rath iontach, na drochiarmhairtí, agus teacht chun cinn arís a bhanna ceoil, Deacon Blue.
Scríobhann sé go tochtmhar agus go han-tráthúil faoi na daoine agus na háiteanna a chuaigh i
bhfeidhm go mór air, faoin chaidreamh atá aige leis an chreideamh agus an pholaitíocht agus faoi
dhúshláin shíorathraitheacha an cheoltóra chomh maith.

Tugann úrscéal nua agus an úrscéalaí agus an scríbhneora scripte, Damien Owens, ‘Duffy and Son’,
cuntas ar scéal Eugene, úinéir siopa crua-earraí, agus é ag cur a ladhair isteach i saol pearsanta a
mhic, Jim, atá 40 bliain d’aois, ina bhaitsiléir, agus a chónaíonn leis. Tugtar an cuntas sa tseoid seo
d’úrscéal tráthúil le greann tirim, go mór ón chroí, le meon láidir an phobail ann chomh maith.
Déanann sé ceiliúradh ar shaolta achrannacha ghnáthdhaoine. ‘Funny, sweet, charming’ – Dara
O’Briain. ‘Charming, warm, touching and funny’ – Marian Keyes.