Cork born Paddy Barry, now living in Dun Laoghaire, is a retired Civil Engineer; married to Mary, with four grown children. He has sailed and climbed in the Arctic and Antarctic; including a Shackleton small boat repeat and two years in Siberia. In 2024, ‘coming ashore’ for a change, Paddy with musician Brendan Begley, did a road journey from Baile Na bPoc, Kerry to Mongolia. It is of this travel through Central Asia that he will speak to us in Lismore.
Details of this year’s festival programme can be found elsewhere on this website.
