DBF After Dark

This year, to mark the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is proud to dedicate our Dublin Book Festival event to our first Honorary Member, Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak, one of Turkey’s longest-serving political prisoners. Joining us will be: Paula Meehan, poet; Caroline Stockford, PEN Norway, İlhan’s friend and translator; Ipek […]

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Tá Takin’ the Mic ag Féile Leabhar Bhaile Átha Cliath le hghaidh sár-oíche filíochta, focal labhartha agus grinn i mBéarla agus i nGaeilge. Arna óstáil ag M.C. Zainab Boladale le léamha ó aoi speisialta Soula Emmanuel chomh maith le ‘mic oscailte’ do scríbhneoirí, filí agus ceoltóirí. Fáilte roimh chách! Takin’ the Mic returns to Dublin […]

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Presented in association with Dublin Book Festival, Introductions | Céadlínte is a Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann showcase of 16 of the most exciting new poets writing in English and Irish on the island of Ireland today. The poets were selected by Stephen Sexton and Aifric MacAodha.  We’ll have a musical guest along on the night. Introductions […]

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Join us at our DBF After Dark Festival Club to unwind after a busy day of festival events. Enjoy readings by poets Jackie Lynam and Molly Twomey, with music by Kíla’s James Mahon. Then stick around after the event to meet and mingle over a drink in the bar.   This is an 18+ event. […]

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Maggie Armstrong’s Old Romantics (Tramp Press) is an acutely observed and hideously entertaining collection of linked short stories where unreliable, deceptive and flawed narrators navigate a world of devious attraction and latent hostility from first love through to motherhood. Lucy Sweeney Byrne’s Let’s Dance (Banshee) is a hilarious and provocative collection of short stories, exploring […]

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Ba é an t-úrscéal Tairngreacht le Proinsias Mac a’ Bhaird is mó a thuil clú dó mar scríbhneoir. Bronnadh Gradam Leabhar na Bliana de chuid An Post ar an úrscéal sa bhliain 2019. Tugann Flaitheas, an t-úrscéal nua leis, radharc dúinn ar Cholm Cille an duine, agus tumtar sinn i saol éiginnte an séú haois. File agus úrscéalaí bisiúil as Cill Chiaráin […]

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Leabharlann Beag will be a vibrant celebration of Ireland’s literary journals, with readings selected by the editors of Channel, Howl, Pig’s Back, Profiles, Sans. PRESS, Sonder, The Four Faced Liar, Tolka, Ragaire and others. Join us for a night of readings with invited writers from different publications, each presenting a piece picked by the editors to represent their project. Featuring journals specialised in […]

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Step into the DBF Literary Cabaret and join us for a relaxed evening of readings and conversation, with plenty of breaks between for music, drinks and chat in the beautiful Joyce lounge in Bewley’s Grafton Street. Brendan MacEvilly will be joined throughout the evening by writers Richy Craven and Sarah Rees Brennan, and poet and […]

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