CÚIRT BOUND
Award-winning Tuam writer looking forward to festival of literature
HE has a passion for folklore, is petrified of horses and speaks at a speed worthy of a native Spaniard.
Words are everything in the world of Oein DeBharduin, a writer, storyteller, historian and activist who left his native Tuam more than a decade ago. He has a great grá for the town, a town he feels has transformed just a little bit more each time he returns to visit.
His current daytime job is Traveller Culture Collection Development Officer with the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin, but his talents in storytelling is what brings him to Galway this weekend.
One of Oein’s books, The Slug and the Snail, will become an interactive puppet show at an event in Galway on Saturday as part of the Cúirt festival of literature.
The book touches on issues such as identity, difference and self-acceptance all through the experience of two slug brothers, who grow apart and live different lives but eventually realise how similar they are.
The show is based on a story passed on to him by his own father and avid storyteller Owenie Ward from Tirboy in Tuam...
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