Bantry / Sunday 7 – Saturday 13 July - West Cork Music

THURsday 11 July20.30 / Maritime Hotel / €20AN EVENING WITH MELVYN BRAGGIntroduced by Carol DrinkwaterMelvyn Bragg will talk about his latest novel, Grace and Mary in which a son visits hiselderly mother in a nursing home by the sea. On each visit he realises that he is losing hera little more and only by prompting her with songs and photographs which take her backto her past can he shore up her receding memory. This is a deeply moving, reflective elegyabout the bond between a mother and son, and three generations linked by a chain of love,loss and courage.Melvyn Bragg was born in 1939 and educated at Wigton’s Nelson Thomlinson Schooland at Oxford, where he read History. He is President of the National Campaign for theArts and in 1998 he was made a life peer. He won an Academy Fellowship at the BAFTATelevision Awards in 2010. He presents In Our Time on Radio 4. His novels include TheMaid of Buttermere, The Soldier’s Return, which won the WH Smith Literary Award, A Sonof War and Crossing the Lines, both long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His last novel,Remember Me, was published to great critical acclaim in 2008. He has also published elevenbooks of non-fiction, the latest being The Book of Books about the King James Bible.‘Quite simply one of the best writers we have.’ Sunday Telegraph22.30 / Ma Murphy’s Pub / FREEJimmy Crowley and members of his writing workshop perform some of their work.23.15 / Maritime Hotel / FREE / Open MikeMelvyn Bragg21