
June 2012
Tuesday 5 June 2012 | 6.30pm
Marrickville Library
Marrickville Town Hall
Cnr Marrickville and Petersham Roads
Marrickville NSW
After speaking recently to the Marrickville Writers’ Group, Ros returns to Marrickville Library to give a free talk about her book Castles, Follies and Four-Leaf Clovers and walking St Declan’s Way, Ireland’s forgotten ancient highway and pilgrim route, and to discuss travel in general and also travel writing. Come along and escape the ordinary everyday as part of the National Year of Reading.
To book telephone 02 9335 2173.
Wednesday 6 June 2012 | 6.30pm
Manly Library
Market Place
Manly NSW
Marrickville NSW
$10 entry, light refreshments served from 6.15pm. Bookings essential 02 9976 1747.
Rosamund is talking at Manly Library about her book Castles, Follies and Four-Leaf Clovers: Adventures Along Ireland’s St Declan’s Way. Her adventure begins when she is lent a map of the ancient highway and pilgrim route St Declan’s Way. Stories of goddesses, ghosts and fairies are intertwined with the eccentricities and daily lives of everyday people this is a journey full of surprises that only Ireland can offer.
April 2012
Saturday 7 April–Monday 9 April 2012
Jindabyne NSW
Rosamund is speaking about Castles, Follies and Four-Leaf Clovers at the inaugural Snowy Mountains Readers and Writers Festival held in Jindabyne on the Easter weekend. Saturday 7 April, 7pm at Journey Food and Wine Bar with travel writer A J McKinnon and MC George Negus. Sunday 8 April 11am–12noon free talk on Irish pilgrimage and music played by Irish musician Bill Motherway.
For more information go to snowymountainswritersfestival.org.
Rosamund Burton is the author of Castles, Follies and Four-Leaf Clovers: Adventures along Ireland's St Declan's Way (Allen & Unwin, July 2011).
She is also a freelance journalist. The publications she has written for include:
- The Australian
- The Sydney Morning Herald
- The Sun-Herald
- body+soul, The Sunday Telegraph
- Outback Magazine
- Practical Parenting
- Good Reading
- Wellbeing Magazine
- NOVA Magazine
