Launch

Promiscuous Writing: Jumping Across Forms Sara Baume, Gustav Parker Hibbett and Ralf Webb
Thursday 05th November @ 7:30 pm
Teeling Distillery
  • DBF After Dark
  • Featured
  • Fiction
  • Launch
  • Main Programme
  • Non-fiction
  • Poetry
  • Professional Development
Three writers, Sara Baume, Gustav Parker Hibbett, and Ralf Webb – who write across forms of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art writing, and beyond – discuss their writing practices with Tolka, a Dublin-based literary magazine that publishes ‘formally promiscuous’ non-fiction. These writers will explore how easy or difficult it is to jump between different mediums, their […]

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Book Launch: Sounding Ireland: Radio and the Making of Us Clíodhna Ní Anluain
Friday 06th November @ 6:00 pm
  • History
  • Launch
  • Main Programme
  • Non-fiction
Join us for the launch of Sounding Ireland: Radio and the Making of Us (New Island) by Clíodhna Ní Anluain. Marking 100 years of public broadcasting in Ireland, this richly detailed book is both a celebration and a reflection of RTÉ Radio and a century of stories told, voices heard and memories made. It’s the […]

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Book Launch: Charlotte McManus’s The Professor in Erin
Friday 06th November @ 6:30 pm
  • DBF After Dark
  • Launch
  • Main Programme
Join us to celebrate the launch of The Professor in Erin by Charlotte McManus. A German scholar exploring ruins hits his head in a fall. He wakes to find himself in a parallel universe: an Ireland that never was, free of English rule since winning the Battle of Kinsale. In this powerful, independent nation, Irish […]

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Winter Papers Launch
Saturday 07th November @ 12:30 pm
  • Art
  • Fiction
  • Launch
  • Main Programme
  • Non-fiction
Volume 12 of Winter Papers, Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, is published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, photography, visual art, along with craft interviews and in-conversation pieces on writing, film, theatre, photography, music, and more.  ‘a treasure trove of soul fuel with deep roots in Irish soil’ – Irish Times Join us […]

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Writing at the Borders of Memory: Translating War in Europe Zoltán Danyi and Owen Good
Saturday 07th November @ 5:00 pm
  • Historical Fiction
  • Launch
  • Main Programme
Join us for an in-depth discussion between author Zoltán Danyi and his Northern Irish translator Owen Good on the occasion of the launch of the first English-language translation (from Hungarian) of Danyi’s prize-winning first novel: The Carcass Remover. Published by Bullaun Press, Ireland’s first press dedicated to literature in translation.           […]

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Book Launch: Coracle Jane Clarke
Sunday 08th November @ 3:30 pm
  • Launch
  • Main Programme
  • Nature
  • Poetry
Join us for the launch of Coracle (Bloodaxe Books), the fourth collection by acclaimed poet Jane Clarke,   which explores what it means to care for each other and the natural world in the midst of social and environmental jeopardy. Exploring lives, language and landscape, these finely observed, distilled and intimate poems reflect on our […]

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Book Launch: Stay Winter – LAST TICKETS REMAINING Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
Sunday 08th November @ 4:45 pm
  • Launch
  • Main Programme
  • Music
  • Poetry
Join us as acclaimed poet Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and virtuoso fiddle maestro Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh come together in an intimate performance on the closing evening of the Dublin Book Festival. This event celebrates the publication of Stay Winter (Faber & Faber), Eipe’s much-anticipated second collection, which conjures a compelling wintry realm, capturing the ‘thing of […]

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