By COLIN BARTLEY A FESTIVAL aimed at breathing life back into a town after its fair share of business closures is ready to open a new chapter this weekend. The 16th Graiguenamanagh ‘Town of Books’ Festival launches tonight and will run until Sunday evening. More than 30 independent booksellers have been confirmed for the event, which […]
THE award-winning author of ‘The Herbalist’, Niamh Boyce, has written a historical fiction about the Kilkenny Witch Trials and Alice Kytler. Based in Kilkenny in 1324, ‘Her Kind’ is inspired by the real life story of Alice Kytler, but is a re-imagining of the story through the eyes of her maidservant Petronella, who would later […]