The Dublin Review at 100 Brendan Barrington, Patrick Freyne, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Mark O’Connell and Cathy Sweeney

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Wednesday 05th November @ 7:00 pm
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The Dublin Review, Ireland’s quarterly magazine of essays, memoir, reportage and fiction, is celebrating its 100th issue. Join us for a special live broadcast of RTÉ Arena on Radio 1 in conversation with the editor of The Dublin Review Brendan Barrington, alongside contributors Patrick Freyne, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Mark O’Connell and Cathy Sweeney.

With special music guests on the night.

Brendan Barrington is the founder and editor of The Dublin Review. He is also an editor at Sandycove, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

Patrick Freyne is a Dublin-based journalist and essayist. He is best known for his features and columns in The Irish Times. His first book of prose Ok, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea was published by Penguin Sandycove in 2020. Patrick has been contributing to The Dublin Review since 2019.

Doireann Ní Ghríofa writes in English and in Irish. Her prose debut A Ghost in the Throat, written on the rooftop of a free multi-storey carpark in Cork, was described as “powerful” (New York Times) and “captivatingly original” (The Guardian). It was awarded the James Tait Black Prize and selected as Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Doireann is also the author of seven books of poetry. She started contributing to The Dublin Review in 2018.

Mark O’Connell is the author of A Thread of Violence, Notes from an Apocalypse, and To Be a Machine, which was awarded the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is a columnist with The Irish Times and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He has been contributing to The Dublin Review since 2012.

Cathy Sweeney is a writer living in Wicklow. Her collection of short stories, Modern Times, was published in 2020 by The Stinging Fly Press in Dublin and by W&N in London. Her debut novel, Breakdown, was published by W&N in 2024. She has been publishing work in The Dublin Review since 2010.