Prominent writers to appear at On the Nail

THE next monthly On The Nail literary reading takes place next Thursday at 8pm in The Locke Bar, George’s Quay, Limerick.
Organised by The Limerick Writers’ Centre, this popular monthly reading and open-mic  night continues to attract audiences with a mix of poetry, prose and music.
This month’s guest readers are Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Gerard Stembridge.
Born in Dublin in 1970, Nuala Ní Chonchúir is a full-time fiction writer and poet, living in Galway county. She has published three collections of short fiction, three poetry collections – one in an anthology, and one novel. She has worked as an arts administrator in theatre and in a writers’ centre; as a translator, as a bookseller and also in a university library. Nuala teaches creative writing on a part-time basis.
Gerard Stembridge is a writer, director and actor born in 1958 in Limerick. He co-created the Irish radio satirical comedy programme Scrap Saturday with Dermot Morgan. He is the writer and director of a number of films, including Guiltrip (1996); About Adam (2000) and Alarm (2008), while he wrote Ordinary Decent Criminal (1999) and Nora (2000). He also has a number of TV productions and novels to his name.
The event kicks off at 8pm and there is free admission and finger food for everyone attending.
For more information contact Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409.