Festival Season Preview: The Hay Festival Returns to Kells

Katy January 26, 2015

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by G.J. Schear
Kells. The very name suggests books. One of the most famous in the world, The Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript of the gospels dated around 800AD, spent its early days here before taking residence in Trinity College, Dublin.
But that’s history.
Today, Kells is a small town where computer shops nuzzle against the 10th century round tower and ancient Celtic crosses frown at traffic lights. It’s an every-day-is-Sunday sort of place. Or was, until the Hay Literary Festival arrived.
The festival began 27 years ago in the Welsh town of Hay. Since its inception it has spread to...

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