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Finding My Voice

From the Sea to the Page

Wed 12th August 2026

In this talk, Sarah Corbett Lynch will reflect on the journey that brought her from writing about grief as a young teenager to becoming an award-winning author, advocate, student of English and Drama, and now a fiction writer.

Sarah will speak about the role storytelling has played in her life: as a way of making sense of loss, building self-belief, finding courage through public advocacy, and learning to trust her own path.

She will also explore how her connection to the sea, her work as a qualified commercial diver and swim instructor, and her love of performance and literature have shaped the way she sees the world.

Now moving into fiction with a two-book deal from Hachette, Sarah will discuss what it means to move from writing lived experience to creating imagined worlds, and why stories remain one of the most powerful ways we connect, heal and understand one another.

speaker
Sarah Corbett Lynch
date
Wed 12th August 2026
time
8:00 PM
location
Cultúrlann Sweeney,
O’Connell St.,
Kilkee V15 P960
admission
Free

About the speaker

Sarah Corbett Lynch

Sarah Corbett Lynch is an Irish author, speaker, advocate, qualified commercial diver, swim instructor and teacher. She is currently studying English and Drama at college.

Sarah Corbett Lynch received a Garda Youth Award and was nominated for Limerick Person of the Year 2020 at the age of 14 for her advocacy work and for writing her children’s book, Noodle Loses Dad, which helps children understand grief and loss.

Her memoir, A Time for Truth, became The Irish Times No. 1 Bestseller and won the Dubray Biography of the Year at the 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards.

Sarah is also an ambassador for both Kinship Care Ireland and The Shona Project.

She is now moving into fiction writing with a two-book deal from Hachette. Across her writing, advocacy and public speaking, Sarah Corbett Lynch explores how stories can help people build self-belief, use their voice, and begin to shape their own future after grief, trauma or change.

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Joseph J. McCloskey

Honorary Secretary,

Kilkee Civic Trust.

secretary@kilkeecivictrust.org

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