In this three-hour session, we will go from generating ideas, to outlining an essay, to covering the conventions and clichés of essay writing, and finally discussing publication opportunities in Ireland and abroad.

In this 90-minute session, YA writer and reviewer Claire Hennessy will explore the key things to consider when writing for teenagers today

Today, National Irish Sign Language (ISL) Day, Fingal County Council has launched an Irish Sign Language (ISL) service for visitors to their offices.

Have you got lots of ideas but can’t get them down on paper? Is your writing happening in fits and starts and going nowhere? Have you written in the past or would love to start to write now?

Is the choice of subject matter or ‘content’ crucial to the effectiveness of a poem? If so, how do we distil experience to find its poetic essence? And then, how do we develop what John Cage called the ‘field of possibilities’ that will make the poem happen in its most appropriate form?

Comedian Pierre Novellie will be in conversation with writer and performer Erin McGathy, to discuss his book Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things?

Fingal County Council Arts Office in partnership with Age & Opportunity and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre are delighted to announce the 2025 two recipients of the residency award. This year’s awardees are multimedia visual artist Beata Piekarska Daly and writer, photographer and director Lorna Fitzsimons.