Silverwood Events

27/04/2025

We're so looking forward to celebrating Poetry Day this Thursday at Kilrush Farmers Market 🙂 To get you in the mood, here's the latest Banner Bookscast! Martin Vernon Poet joins us to talk about poetry events at Clare Libraries, and Mary McGraw has all the details for May Day activities and more from Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann

In this episode we celebrate Poetry Day Ireland, with poet Martin Vernon and Mary McGraw of Poetry Ireland.

22/04/2025

Time for another Banner Bookscast, with Rainbow Banner Books, Q***r Sheds Clare and Quare Clare - LGBTQIA+Clare - and what a lovely bunch they all are! I'm having way too much fun doing this :D

In this episode, we focus on Rainbow Banner Books, our sister social media account for all things LGBTQ+. You can follow us on Facebook (here) or on Insta

20/04/2025

Gráinne O'Brien joined me for a great chat about her new book, 'Solo', a verse novel for young adults about teenage love, friendship - and music.
Once you've listened to Gráinne, you're bound to want a copy (it's not just for teenagers) - as luck would have it, you can buy it in store or online from Banner Books here; https://bannerbooks.ie/shop/discover-irish-childrens-books/solo

In this episode we meet Gráinne O'Brien to talk about her new book, Solo, a verse novel for Young Adults.

01/04/2025

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26/03/2025

Listen in to The Banner Bookscast to hear Limerick-based poet D'or Seifer, who will be hosting the Open Mic Social at Banner Books this coming Friday evening.

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08/03/2025

Hard to believe that it's two weeks already since we distributed all the trees from Free Trees Ireland! A big, but very rewarding job made so much easier by all the kind volunteers from Kilrush Tidy Towns.
1175 trees were given out to people from all around the West of Clare - they went to Ballyea, Carrigaholt, Clarecastle, Cooraclare, Cree, Doonbeg, Ennis, Ennistymon, Kilkee, Killard, Kilrush, Lahinch, Lisdeen, Lisdoonvarna, Lissycasey, Miltown Malbay, Moveen, Querrin, Toonagh and Oranmore (long story!). It's great to think of them all going in the ground :)
We also got a few trees for Tidy Towns, and they are being planted around the town. We'll have one or two to give away tomorrow, at our Gardener's Get-together at Banner Books. We'll have some basket willow cuttings too - hope to see you there!
We'll be distributing again for Free Trees Ireland in November/December. They are a fantastic team of volunteers, so please support them if you can with a donation at https://www.gofundme.com/f/free-native-trees

21/02/2025

Did you order trees from Free Trees Ireland, for collection in Kilrush? If you did, please check your emails and your text messages! I've contacted everyone on the list twice, once by email and once by text, but lots of you have not been back in touch.

PLEASE;
Reply to let us know what time you plan to collect.
Let us know if you can't come on Saturday, and we'll try to sort something out for you.
Let us know if you don't want the trees after all! We can give them to someone on the waiting list.

Thanks to everyone that's been in touch, looking forward to seeing you tomorrow :)

Our pickup point is nice and easy to find, with lots of free parking nearby if you want to stay and look around Kilrush. You can grab a great coffee and some excellent food straight across the road at Jellyfishmarketplace and do pop in to the bookshop, too - Banner Books have been amazing supporters for this project, providing free transport for your trees, and they've got tons of books on forestry, biodiversity and more, so show them some love ;)

Arrangements for collection of trees on Saturday.

At this stage, the trees have arrived and are being sorted by Lily of Silverwood Events. She has been in contact with everybody who ordered trees from about arrangements for collecting their trees on Saturday. Please be mindful of parking in the area. The pick-up point is located at the Millennium Park at the bottom of Frances Street, outside the marina gates. There are some spaces to pull in to collect trees. Parking is also available within the marina or to the rear of the Quay Mills building.

And finally, huge thanks to Free Trees Ireland for all of their work, providing so many native trees to enrich our communities. So far, donations collected have not been enough to cover the costs of this wonderful project, so please make a donation if you can at https://www.gofundme.com/f/free-native-trees Even a small donation would be a big help.

24/01/2025

APPLICATIONS POSTPONED to Saturday, 01 February 2025 at 10am

With so many households affected by the storm, we have decided to move applications by one week. Stay safe everybody.

Click here for all information- https://freetrees.ie/next