20th March 2008

The Friends of the Hunt Museum are delighted to herald in the Spring season with luncheon in the new and very stylish Limerick Marriott Hotel, on Thursday 10 April. The guest speaker is Cathy Kelly, who will talk in her role as both best-selling novelist and UNICEF Ireland Ambassador. The lunch will commence with a champagne reception at 12.30pm.

Daphne Henderson, Chairman of the Friend’s Council commented “This is a fundraiser for badly needed resources for the Hunt Museum Exhibition Fund. While we continue to enjoy wonderful exhibitions in the Hunt Museum, they are enormously expensive to stage, so therefore funds are continually needed”.

Numbers are limited so book as early as possible on 061-312960 or email: friends@huntmuseum.com

Cathy Kelly: Biography
Novelist Cathy Kelly was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, brought up in Dublin and started her working life as a journalist in an Irish national newspaper. She worked as both a news and feature reporter, and worked as the paper’s film critic for five years, as well as being the agony aunt for seven years.

Her first book, Woman To Woman, was published in 1997 and was an instant bestseller, spending eight weeks at number one on the Irish bestseller charts. Her subsequent novels have been number ones all around the world and are published in many different languages. She’s just finished her tenth novel, Lessons in Heartbreak, which was published in January 2008. Cathy lives in Wicklow in Ireland with her partner, John, and their twin sons, Murray and Dylan. In 2005, she was appointed as a UNICEF Ireland Ambassador. She’s since visited Mozambique and Rwanda as part of her work with UNICEF. Global Parenting – caring for children orphaned or affected by HIV/AIDS – is the main focus of her work with UNICEF. www.cathykelly.com

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