Lismore Immrama - Festival Of Travel Writing

25/06/2024

We send our deepest condolences to Tommie’s family, friends and colleagues.

Tommie Gorman held a number of positions at the broadcaster including Northern Editor in a career that spanned 41 years.

15/06/2024

It’s been an amazing few days so far with Michael Harding, Dom Joly, John Dwyer and Donald Brady.. Tommie Gorman kicks off in a few minutes followed tonight by Amanda Neri and Bridget Ashton. Tomorrow morning sees Bill Power round off Immrama 2024 ☀️

12/06/2024

📕✒️📘.🖋📙 Immrama is held in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland, on a weekend in June each year since 2003. Immrama has been dedicated to the art of Travel Writing, Good Music, and Fine Entertainment since its inception 📕✒️📘.🖋📙

Double bill with Amanda and Bridget on Sat. 15th June at 7pm, Lismore Heritage Centre
Amanda Neri is a classical ally trained Opera Singer. She has traveled extensively and experienced varied cultural approaches to her music. At Immrama, she will share some insights on her experiences while being on the road as a performer through story and song.

She has written musicals, songs, short stories and poetry. She also has two books ready for publishing. A rare cultural experience awaits you.



Bridget Ashton is an explorer, mother, writer and photographer. Her writing has been described as “Travel writing which is utterly authentic and restlessly curious”. Cold War, Warm Hearts published in 2023 is an account of a year’s solo travelling, on foot, behind the Iron Curtain in 1966. Hit the Road, Gals published 2024, talks about travelling in the sixties.



Bill Power Sunday 16th June 11.00am, Lismore Heritage Centre

Bill Power is an historian and international award-winning photographer who spent two decades exploring the Munster Blackwater, often referred to in the 19th century as 'The Irish Rhine'. His book “The Blackwater – History and Images from the Irish Rhine” captures the history, spirit and beauty of the River Blackwater. Bill said that as his voyages of discovery on foot, by air and by road increased “so did my appreciation of this river, which has a beauty and fascination that exceeded all my expectations.” He is an author of 17 books, some of his best-known works are White Knights, Dark Earleys and the Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Irish Dynasty.

11/06/2024

📍 With Michael Harding & Tommie Gorman SOLD OUT we have VERY limited tickets available for Friday - Dom Joly & Saturday Amanda Neri & Bridget Ashton.

🎟️ They won’t last long!

10/06/2024

🚨only a few days left to get your tickets!

Link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dom-joly-immrama-festival-of-travel-writing-2024-tickets-881300171537?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

07/06/2024

🎟️ Tickets very low!!!

✍️ Join an audience with world-famous writers at Lismore Immrama - Festival Of Travel Writing, June 13th to 16th.
🚨 Don’t miss this unique opportunity to enjoy talks and stories with renowned names including;
🌟 TV personality, comedian and travel writer, Dom Jolly.
🎵 Amanda Neri, a classically trained opera singer, has authored musicals, songs, short stories, and books.
📖 Local historian, Bill Power, talks about the history of the Black Water.
🗓️ For a full program of events and to book tickets see 👉 www.lismoreimmrama.com

04/06/2024

Tickets are running low for most events!

Get them here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dom-joly-immrama-festival-of-travel-writing-2024-tickets-881300171537

✍️ Join an audience with world-famous writers at Lismore Immrama - Festival Of Travel Writing, June 13th to 16th.
🚨 Don’t miss this unique opportunity to enjoy talks and stories with renowned names including;
🌟 TV personality, comedian and travel writer, Dom Jolly.
🎵 Amanda Neri, a classically trained opera singer, has authored musicals, songs, short stories, and books.
📖 Local historian, Bill Power, talks about the history of the Black Water.
🗓️ For a full program of events and to book tickets see 👉 www.lismoreimmrama.com

29/05/2024

🚨 Ticket Update 🚨

Michael Harding - SOLD OUT
Dom Joly & Tommie Gorman - LIMITED TICKETS REMAINING

21/05/2024

🛸 Immrama 2024

I’m also appearing at the Lismore Immrama - Festival Of Travel Writing in Lismore, Ireland on Friday 14th June

19/05/2024

📕 Michael Harding - Thursday June 13th 8pm

🛸 Dom Joly - Friday June 14th 8pm

Tickets €20.00 - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dom-joly-immrama-festival-of-travel-writing-2024-tickets-881300171537

07/05/2024

Bill Power speaks on “The Blackwater – History and Images from the Irish Rhine” capturing the history, spirit and beauty of the River Blackwater.

Immrama - Sunday June 16th @ 11am

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/bill-power-immrama-festival-of-travel-writing-2024-tickets-884002444107

02/05/2024

Tickets available now ☀️✨

01/05/2024

Dom Joly comes to Immrama on Friday June 14th at 8pm.

The Conspiracy Tourist

Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On his journeys he meets conspiracy theorists galore in destinations all over the world, some famous, some rather less so. Conspiracy theories used to be fun, a bit of laugh. Did we really land on the moon? Was Paul McCartney cloned? Nowadays, however, in the aftermath of Donald Trump, a global pandemic and the ever-increasing influence of social media algorithms, they are part of the body politic and a massive cause of division and mistrust. In The Conspiracy Tourist Dom Joly sets out on a global journey to find out what's going on.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dom-joly-immrama-festival-of-travel-writing-2024-tickets-881300171537

01/05/2024

Michael Harding speaks at Immrama 2024

“The truth is that we can belong anywhere, if we just give it a chance.”

Michael Harding was born in 1953 in Cavan, and is an Irish short story writer, newspaper columnist, novelist and playwright.

Thursday June 13th
8pm

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/michael-harding-immrama-festival-of-travel-writing-2024-tickets-881219018807

09/04/2024

Thank you to all of our Devonshire Day guests for supporting this vital Immrama Fundraiser.

🫖 Hats off to the team at Lismore Immrama - Festival Of Travel Writing for organizing another tremendously successful Devonshire Day last Sunday! 🏰

How stunning is the Pugin hall at Lismore Castle 😍🙌🏻

17/03/2024

🌸 It’s that time of the year! Bookings are now open for Devonshire Day 2024.

🏰 DEVONSHIRE DAY​ 🏰
In aid of Immrama - The Lismore Festival of Travel Writing.

https://lismore-immrama.com/devonshire-day-sunday-7th-april-2024/

📅 Sunday 7th April 2024
🎟️ Tickets €25

Ticket Includes:

* Historical talk on Lismore Castle by the Head Butler
* Tour of the Gardens by the Head Gardener
* Devonshire Cream Tea in the stunning Pugin Room of Lismore Castle.

12/03/2024

Sending condolences to Charlie’s family & friends.

24/02/2024

🌸 It’s that time of the year! Bookings are now open for Devonshire Day 2024.

🏰 DEVONSHIRE DAY​ 🏰
In aid of Immrama - The Lismore Festival of Travel Writing.

https://lismore-immrama.com/devonshire-day-sunday-7th-april-2024/

📅 Sunday 7th April 2024
🎟️ Tickets €25

Ticket Includes:

* Historical talk on Lismore Castle by the Head Butler
* Tour of the Gardens by the Head Gardener
* Devonshire Cream Tea in the stunning Pugin Room of Lismore Castle.

01/02/2024

🚢 ⛅️ A great night of fascinating tales of the Sea.

30/01/2024

Charlie Connelly speaks tomorrow night in Lismore Heritage Centre Theatre!

“Attention All Shipping” comes to Lismore from a sold out run .

Tickets available here:

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/attention-all-shipping-charlie-connelly-tickets-802912842927?aff=oddtdtcreator

07/01/2024

✨January Event ✨

Immrama proudly presents:

ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING -
A CELEBRATION OF THE SHIPPING FORECAST

As the solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast turns 100 years old, bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster Charlie Connelly’s hilarious and informative one-man show brings the quirky broadcast vividly to life as never before.
How did a weather forecast for ships capture the hearts of a nation, from salty old sea dog to insomniac landlubber? How is it possible for ‘rain later’ to be ‘good’? And where the hell is North Utsire?

Delving into the history of the forecast and telling the stories of the geniuses and crackpots who made it, Charlie explains what the forecast’s curious phrases actually mean, charts its wide cultural impact way beyond just predicting the weather, shares riproaring adventures from his own extraordinary journey through the 31 sea areas, and presents his case for the shipping forecast being our proudest achievement.

Inspired by Charlie’s bestselling book, which has sold more than a quarter-of-a-million copies worldwide, this pacy, informative, moving and hilarious show takes you from Viking to South-East Iceland via Hebrides, Fastnet and German Bight to ensure the shipping forecast will never, ever sound the same again.

✨Venue: Courthouse Lismore
✨Date: Wednesday Jan 31st at 8pm
✨Tickets: Adults €15 Concession: €10

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/attention-all-shipping-charlie-connolly-tickets-802912842927?aff=oddtdtcreator

✨Tickets Lismore Heritage Centre or by phone 058-54975

19/06/2023

📚 Immrama - Lismore Festival of Travel Writing 2023

18/06/2023

Our final event of the weekend was another scintillating talk by Lara Marlowe, who took the audience through her 40 year career in journalism.
Lara was married to Robert Fisk, acclaimed war correspondent and her book “Love in a time of War”discusses their travels, covering some of the world’s most historic conflicts in modern history.

Thank you to all of our audiences over what has been an amazing 19th Immrama Festival.

17/06/2023

A full house Saturday, as Lara Marlowe took to the stage this afternoon and spoke vividly about her esteemed career as a War Correspondent, as well as her book; “Love in a Time of War”, an account of her marriage and work with Robert Fisk, at sites of conflicts all over the world.

🇺🇸 Brian O’Donovan then took the stage and is giving the audience a first hand account of Donald Trump’s tumultuous four years in the White House, culminating the the storming of the Capital.

17/06/2023

🍎 Amazing morning at Immrama, started by Donald Brady’s fascinating lecture in Lismore Library & followed by Dr. Matthew Jebb, Head of the National Botanic Gardens , who took us on a search for the Garden of Eden, along the Silk Road, through Papa New Guinea, via the Seychelles and into the mysterious mountains of Kyrgyzstan. He then joined Head Gardener, Colm of the Lismore Castle Gardens for a fabulous tour.

16/06/2023

📍 Thank you to who regaled is with her talk tonight about the late,great Dervla Murphy. “Dervla Unabridged” was Isabelle’s account of her time as a journalist spent with Dervla in her twilight years.

15/06/2023

🚲 Immrama 2023 has kicked off with John Dwyer and Roz Burton taking us on amazing adventures across The Land Down Under 🇦🇺

14/06/2023

These two amazing events are still available online, kicking off tomorrow evening (Thursday June 15th)

📍 https://www.eventbrite.ie/cc/immrama-festival-of-travel-writing-2023-2073349

13/06/2023

📍 EXTRA LARA MARLOWE EVENT ADDED.

Lara will speak on Sunday June 18th at 11am in Lismore Heritage Centre.

Limited tickets available, includes tea/coffee/scones.

Tickets here:

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/lara-marlowe-sunday-immrama-festival-of-travel-writing-2023-tickets-656575774817?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

12/06/2023

🚨 Due to a family emergency, Tomi Reichental can no longer be at Immrama on Sunday morning.

📍 If you have tickets, Lara Marlowe has kindly stepped in with a fascinating talk.
📍 You will have received an email, please check for instructions!