We opened the third day of the Festival with Sonja Tiernan, speaking about Eva Gore-Booth to mark the anniversary edition of Sonja's biography of the activist, writer and poet. This was followed by Leanne Calvert, with a fascinating talk entitled 'Runaway husbands, Unhappy wives and Cheating Spouses: Tales of Marital Disorder in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ulster' and then Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick on the 'Bad Bridgets, based on their book and podcast Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women. Elaine & Leanne are featured in the photo introducing this blog post.

The afternoon session was devoted to marking the 300th anniversary of the publication of Gulliver's Travels in 1726 with Hester Grant talking about her book The Twitnam Summer: Friendship, Satire and the Writing of Gulliver's Travels followed by Adam Tomkins examining Swift and the Constitution, a lecture in honour of our friend and Festival supporter James Kingston. We closed the Festival with Hester and Adam being interviewed about Swift by Myles Dungan, for a piece to be broadcast on Myles' RTE History Show in the autumn (this discussion is pictured below).