| Live Event
| Featured, Talks/Spoken Word

An Evening with Michael Harding

Thursday April 10, 2025
Author Michael Haring. He is wearing a black rimmed hat, glasses and a suit. The background is the wall of a house painted in sunflower yellow.
Show Date & Time:
Thursday April 10, 8:00pm
Ticket Price:

€27 (inclusive of booking fee)

As he walks the Camino and talks to his father.

Michael Harding’s father had a profound effect on his life. In 2023 Michael walked the Camino de Santiago, and wrote a volume of memoir entitled I Loved Him from the Day he Died.

Join Michael as he brings to life the Camino walk and the father who shaped his life.


Michael Harding is a writer, podcaster and commentator. He was born in Cavan in 1953 and has received both the Stewart Parker Award and an RTÉ Arts Show/Bank of Ireland Award for his theatre work. The Abbey Theatre has staged Strawboys (1987), Una Pooka (1989), Misogynist (1990), Hubert Murray’s Widow (1993) and Sour Grapes (1997). The Tinker’s Curse was nominated for Best New Play, at the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2007. His fiction includes Priest (1986) and The Trouble with Sarah Gullion (1988). He has written an acclaimed series of memoirs, starting with Staring at Lakes (2013) to his most recent I loved Him From the Day He Died (2024) He writes a column for the Irish Times alongside commentary on numerous documentary programmes and has featured in film and theatre, including a recent short film, Where the Old Man Lives. He is a member of Aosdána and lives with his wife, the artist Cathy Carmen, near Lough Allen in County Leitrim.

‘Hilarious, and tender, and mad, and harrowing, and wistful, and always beautifully written’ KEVIN BARRY

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