Lit Lú, Louth Library Service’s inaugural literary festival, takes places this September from Thursday 25th to Saturday 27th.
Funded and supported by Creative Ireland through Louth County Council Arts Office, events in all five library branches will cater to a wide range of tastes throughout the county.
Programmed over three days, across all of Louth’s five branch libraries, Lit Lu’s series of panel discussions and in-person conversations will celebrate national and local fiction writers, food writers, screen writers and memoir writers.
There is a thriving reading culture in County Louth with eighteen Book Clubs supported by Louth Library Service and nearly 180,000 items borrowed from the libraries in Louth last year.
The Lit Lú festival aims to build on this reading culture, increase engagement in reading for health and well-being and demonstrate that books and libraries are for everyone. Reading and literacy development is at the heart of Louth Library Service, and we are a free community space for everyone to use and enjoy, with no barriers to access.
Amanda Branigan, Louth County Librarian says, ‘It is a great honour and privilege to welcome writers of such high calibre to Louth to take part in this inaugural literary festival. I encourage everyone to come along to one or all of our events!
All festival events are free although booking is required.
Later in the year, there will be two Lit Lú Fringe events in honour of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. On Thursday 11th December in Dundalk and Friday 12th December in Drogheda, these evenings of music and talks will celebrate the enduring legacy and influence of Austen’s writing.
Lit Lú 2025 Features:
Roisín O’Donnell, author of the Sunday Times Bestselling novel Nesting
Belinda McKeon, author of Solace (winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize) and Tender
Tara Walker, TV chef, cookery teacher, and cookbook author of Good Food No Stress
Kristin Jensen, publisher and editor at Nine Bean Rows Books
Nicola Cassidy, author, screenwriter, ghostwriter and playwright
Darren Thornton, award-winning Irish Director/Writer of A Date for Mad Mary
Phyl Herbert, actor, director, teacher and writer Liz McManus, novelist, short story writer and former Labour Party TD
