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EVENTS
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2024

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20th September Town Hall Theatre

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3rd June ACHS Conference

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16/17th May Town Hall Theatre

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23rd March The Cube 

 

2023

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22nd September 6pm Flirt FM Studios 

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16th September 5pm Athenry Heritage Centre

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2nd May Galway Theatre Festival

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8th April Project Arts Centre 

 

2022

 

18th December 4pm Hearth of Winter

 

6th November 4pm Western Hotel

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23rd September 6pm Galway City Library

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2021

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16th September 6.30 Athenry Heritage Centre, Retreat! Meet the characters

 

 2020

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18th September 6.30 Athenry Heritage Centre, Live reading of Retreat!

 

20th April 4pm King's Head, Cúirt Festival-Postponed

 

2019

 

13th April 6pm Town Hall Theatre, Cúirt Festival

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1st March 6.30pm Launch of Crannog - Crane Bar, Galway

 

2018

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16th December Dublin - Books Upstairs 

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17th November Dublin Book Festival

 

30th September Bray Literary Festival

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21st September Charlie Byrnes, Galway

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3rd June 4pm Inish Island Conversations, Inishbofin

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5th May - 6pm Black Gate, Galway- Launch of anthology 'Autonomy'

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10th May 7pm Athenry Library, Athenry- Beltaine Festival 

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19th April 6.30pm Town Hall Theatre, Galway - Launch of 'Marina' 

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27th April 1pm Town Hall Theatre- 'Young, Irish, Displaced.'

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8th March Irish Writer's Centre, WomenXBorders

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15th March Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith- A Novel Affair

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ABOUT



Aoibheann is originally from Donegal. She now lives in Galway where she performs, and writes fiction, non-fiction and the occasional poem. Her short stories have been published in The Stinging Fly, Crannog, The Incubator and other literary journals in Ireland, UK, Italy  & USA. Her work has been anthologised by New Binary Press, Arlen House, Doire (IRL), Hammond House & Pankhurst Press (UK) and Prospero (Italy). Her short stories have been longlisted for Colm Toibin 2019, shortlisted for Words on Waves 2015, Sunday Business Post/ Penguin Ireland 2018, Cúirt New Writing 2019, Wild Atlantic Words 2020, Benedict Kiely and Hammond House 2022 , came second in the Maria Edgeworth and Dalkey Creates 2019 and was highly commended in Hammond House 2023. She was awarded the Tyrone Guthrie Residency by Galway City Council in 2018 and a Literature Bursary by the Arts Council in 2022. She co-writes, produces, directs and acts in chart topping comedy Retreat! Retreat (the play) is being staged in Galway in 2024.Aoibheann is currently working on a new play and a second series of  Retreat is in pre-production.

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MARINA

The novel follows the narrator, Marina, from infancy through a troubled childhood and the forging of a lifelong friendship with someone as lost as herself. The story of the heroine’s mental struggles, her musical talent, her escape to London, her offbeat boyfriend, her sojourn in suburbia and eventual return to Ireland builds to a shocking crescendo.

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“Knowing and mysterious, funny and heartbreaking. Best of all though this is a genuine original, a singular enchantment.” 
Mike McCormack, author of Solar Bones

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“Rich in insights and wry humour, the novel explores what it is to be isolated, lost, and stranded between worlds. Aoibheann McCann writes exquisitely of the magnetic pull of sea and water, and the yearning to belong.” 
Danielle McLaughlin, author of Dinosaurs on Other Planets

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“Marina is that oh-so-rare novelistic thing – an ideal blend of luminous prose and read-on storytelling. A wonderful gift of a first novel.”
Alan McMonagle, author of Ithaca

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LINKS TO Aoibheann's WORK

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LIVE READINGS

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'Hitching' at Shorelines Festival

 

 'Linedancing' at Crannóg

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 'Marina' at Galway Launch

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'Stealing Boyfriends' at Crannóg

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'The Blow-Ins Guide to Galway Live from The Holding Cell

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SHORT STORIES

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The Jewel of India

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Fumes

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FLASH FICTION

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Blind Date

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Three stories in Italian

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