Violence in the North, the space race, and the infamous Chappaquiddick incident involving Edward Kennedy were in the headlines 50 years ago. All three issues were to appear in the headlines for the years and decades to come.

Carl Dixon talks to twoof the top writers appearing at this year’s Immrama festival in Lismore

“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas” (John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel)