Iron Mountain Literature Festival
PEACE, WAR AND THE MUSIC OF WHAT HAPPENS
Neil Jordan & Kevin Barry at the Iron Mountain Literature Festival Fri 4 - Sun 6 Oct 2024
Writers Kevin Barry, Neil Jordan, Nelofer Pazira-Fisk and Ronan McGreevy are among the guests at this year’s Iron Mountain Literature Festival which takes place in the Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon on the weekend of October 4th to 6th.
Arising from the John McGahern seminar which ran from 2007 for eight years, the Iron Mountain Literature Festival was established in 2016, reframed in a wider context involving writers, artists and thinkers from many perspectives.
The festival continues to draw much of its motivation from the works and legacy of John McGahern, an approach which has allowed for a wide-ranging literary event combining panels, talks, readings and field trips which look to ideas central to and arising from an exploration of place, home and identity and the role of literature in shaping an understanding of history and human experience.