THIS WEBINAR IS NOW AT FULL CAPACITY AND WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING REGISTRATION AT THE MOMENT.

Study & Careers director, Fidelma Healy Eames, is delighted to announce she will be live-streaming an interview with popular children’s author, David Walliams into Irish primary classrooms on Monday September 20th at 10am, in collaboration with the Education Support Centres of Ireland.

‘Irish children asked me to see if we could book David for an #InspiringIreland #InspiringStudents interview and I’m delighted to say he has said yes! He has even promised to read aloud for children and has kindly offered to do a separate interview for second-level students. How great is that!

In the meantime, we all have homework to do to be ready for this exciting interview! There are two things you need to do right away (i) book your slot asap via your local Education Centre and (ii) email me questions you would like me to ask David about his books to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or tweet your questions to the Study and Careers twitter handle @educate_talent Don’t forget to use the #InspiringIreland #InspiringStudents hashtag.

Special Guest: David Walliams

David Walliams OBE (born 20 August 1971) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and television personality. Multi-talented, he is also a very well-known writer of children's books, having sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
In 2008 David published his first children’s book ‘The Boy in the Dress’, illustrated by Sir Quentin Blake selling over one million copies. Since then, he has published 29 further books, including 9 picture books. A series of best-selling books have followed, many of which have been staged or televised, such as ‘Mr Stink’, ‘Gangsta Granny’, ’The Boy in the Dress' and ‘Grandpa’s Great Escape’. So far his books have been translated into 53 languages and have sold over 40 million copies worldwide. In 2017 David was awarded an OBE for his services to charity and the arts.