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Celebrating Irish Children’s Books | Online School and Family Book Festival. This year we are part of the Dublin Book Festival.

Speakers

Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland - Literature

Rob Grant

Robert Grant was born in Waterford, Ireland. He has a PhD in philosophy from Trinity College Dublin, where he was an Irish Research Scholar. He has taught philosophy both at Trinity and in several other institutions. Rob is founder of the Philosophy in the Community project and a member of Philosophy Ireland, and has taught philosophy in schools, prisons, community centres and many other places. He has written and talked about this work for The Irish Times, RTÉ radio and television, BBC radio, Newstalk radio and many other places. His first children’s book, The Philosophy Resistance Squad, was recently published.

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The Philosophy Resistance Squad
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ProperBook Webinar So You Want to be a Children's Writer? Chair Patricia Forde with Rob Grant, Shane Hegarty and Clare Wallace
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