West Cork Literary Festival gets underway 

One of Ireland’s most popular literary festivals launches today, and organisers say demand is already brisk for its events.

The West Cork Literary Festival runs for a week with several of the events already heavily booked or sold out.

Tickets are still available for big names including Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch, Anne Enright, Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín, multi-award winning poet Jason Allen-Paisant, Pulitzer Prize winner Hisham Matar, best-selling crime writers Andrea Mara, Shari Lapena, and Nita Prose, Palestinian author Adania Shibli, Jan Carson, Mark O’Connell, Paula Meehan, Irvine Welsh, Emer Martin, Sinéad Gleeson and many more.

There are several free events planned at Bantry Library and Bantry Bookshop during the festival, among them a series of free events for children and families across the week.

For the full line-up see www.westcorkmusic.ie/LFProgramme.