An Evening at Liber with Sheila Armstrong and Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin
Liber Bookshop in Sligo will host a literary event on Tuesday, 21st October from 5.30pm with two of Ireland’s most exciting literary voices, Sheila Armstrong and Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, who both won Special Mentions from EUPL (European Union Prize for Literature).
Call into Liber Bookshop on Tuesday, 21st October at 17:30 for a special evening celebrating two of Ireland’s most exciting literary voices. It promises to be an inspiring evening of stories, conversation and celebration!
Sheila Armstrong was recently awarded a Special Mention in the European Union Prize for Literature 2025 for her debut novel, Falling Animals. Sheila Armstrong is a writer from the north-west of Ireland. She is the author of How To Gut A Fish, a collection of short stories, and Falling Animals, a novel. She has been nominated for the Irish Book Awards, the Society of Authors Awards, the Kate O’Brien Award, the Edge Hill Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. She was chosen as an Arts Council Next Generation Artist and an An Post Best New Irish Writer. She is working on her second novel.
Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, writer, musician and founder of Futa Fata, was winner of the 2025 Children’s Books Ireland Award and recipient of a Special Mention at the European Union Prize for Literature 2022 for his acclaimed Irish-language novel, Madame Lazare. His creative fiction-style biography of the 19th-century poet and songwriter, Antoine Ó Raiftearaí, Mise Raiftearaí an Fíodóir Focal (I am Raiftearaí, the Word-Weaver) was awarded the premier Irish-language Book of the Year Award, Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin, 2015. His season song book & CD Bliain na nAmhrán (The Year of Song) won a Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year Award, was included in the White Ravens Annual Catalogue of excellent children’s publications from around the world by the International Youth Library, Munich, Germany and won the Irish-language Book of the Year, Gradam Réics Carló, 2017. Screenwriting credits include the TV drama Aifric (Telegael, 2006-08 for TG4), which he co-created with director Paul Mercier and Telegael. The series won three consecutive Irish Film and Television Awards for best youth programme (2007, 2008 and 2009) and the Celtic Media Festival Bronze Torc Award for best young peoples’ production. The show has been broadcast in Europe, Latin America and Asia. His novel, Madame Lazare, was awarded an An Post Irish Book Award in 2021.