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Creative Catalyst: Sean Bailey in Conversation with Eoin ColferRecorded on 19 Feb / City Hall / 18:00.Event details:In a world where cinema is often defined by box-office figures, the...

Lucy Bevan Casting is looking for an Irish boy for the title role in Disney’s adaptation of Eoin Colfer’s novel Artemis Fowl. Best of all no previous acting experience is necessary!Please...

The team behind the adaptation of Irish author Eoin Colfer’s novel of the same name is set to be distributed by Disney is looking for an Irish actor aged 9-12 of any ethnicity. Inquisitive and...

Also, I'm Laureate na nOg at the moment, which is the ambassador for children's literature. My project has been this book, Once Upon a Place. I believe that Ireland is a really magical place, and...

The Specsavers Ireland Children's Book of the Year Junior Award goes to Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer and Oliver Jeffers.The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards are a set of...

What stories did you enjoy reading when you were little?I remember being very obsessed with Vikings when I was young. There was a Scandinavian series of books called Noggin the Nog and Nogbad the...

This is masterful storytelling by Eoin Colfer, done with a great deal of panache. His imagery and language merge the world of quantum physics and dark material with wild imagination and adventure to...

In his role as Laureate na n’Óg, the Children’s Laureate of Ireland, Eoin Colfer created a national storytelling project. Once Upon a Place, a collection of stories and poems by Irish writers,...

...For President!Well, no not really but the Irish Book Awards are now open for voting."As you might know Oliver Jeffers and I made a book together called Imaginary Fred, and we have now been...