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

In Partnership with RTÉ Radio 1 Arena

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 Sara Baume, Patrick Freyne, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and Mark O’Connell

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.

Sara Baume is the author of four books, the most recent of which, Seven Steeples, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the International Dylan Thomas Prize. In 2023 she was named one of Granta magazine’s ‘Best Young British Novelists.’ She works also as a visual artist. Sara has been contributing to The Dublin Review since 2014.

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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.

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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.

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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.