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We are delighted to present an evening with award-winning author Louise O’Neill to celebrate her new book, A Bigger Life. Known for her sharp and unflinching feminist writing, with bestselling novels including Idol and Asking for It, Louise will now join author Sophie White in conversation about her first memoir.  At 38, Louise had the […]

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Dublin Book Festival is delighted to welcome renowned writers and activists Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor to Dublin to discuss their forthcoming book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World. This blistering reckoning with our age takes us deep into today’s man-made Armageddon complex – and shows us how to stand against […]

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For this year’s special opening night, join us with The Women’s Podcast Book Club, from The Irish Times, to celebrate the extraordinary rise, diversity and influence of Irish women’s writing over the past two decades. From experimental fiction and magical realism to powerful stories of place, identity, history and contemporary Ireland, Irish women writers have transformed […]

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Join author Carlo Gébler as he explores what sense is one to make of the death of another? Adopt the stoic position, endure and learn? Accept death, whatever else it is, as educational? It often seems that’s what the culture would like us to do but in No One Tells You, the Last Years of […]

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Exploring themes from first love, grief and trauma to family bonds and deep friendships, join us for an evening around two captivating debut novels. In Ruth McKee’s Wild Iris (Dedalus Books) the past haunts the present in this witty, unflinching portrait of a woman at a devastating crossroads. Juliano Zaffino’s The Steps (Tramp Press) blends […]

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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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Contentious Spaces (Skein Press) is the debut novel from acclaimed author and playwright Rosaleen McDonagh, exploring the inner lives of Traveller families on a site in Dublin over the course of one crucial week. Threatened with eviction, it’s not only their homes at stake but also their history and the stories that have shaped them. […]

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Publishing some of Ireland’s most exciting and innovative comics, PANDEMONIUM is a new literary journal dedicated to publishing short-form fiction and non-fiction comics. This event features three of Ireland’s leading comics creators and contributors to the first issue of PANDEMONIUM, Phil Barrett, Alan Dunne and Katherine Foyle, who will read from their work and join […]

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Join us as we delve into two captivating debut novels from some of the freshest voices in Irish fiction. Jessamine O’Connor’s Somewhere (Lilliput Press) is a raw and intimate portrait of a woman balancing on the edge of survival, seeking meaning and love amid isolation and addiction. Djamel White’s All Them Dogs (John Murray) is […]

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What does it mean to create, remember and resist as Indigenous artists in Europe today?  Join award-winning Irish Traveller writer and curator Oein DeBhairduin and Swedish Sámi writer, editor and activist Patricia Fjellgren for a thought-provoking conversation exploring identity, storytelling, and resilience. This event forms part of Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together, a series of cross-disciplinary […]

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Join globally acclaimed children’s picture book creator Oliver Jeffers at Dublin Book Festival, where he will be talking about his new collaboration, A Day Off School, and There’s a Ghost in This House (HarperCollins Children’s). Then come to meet Oliver after the event, when he will be signing copies of his books. With every purchase […]

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What can the ocean teach us about our changing climate — and why should we listen? Join surfer, scientist and author Easkey Britton, novelist Róisín Maguire and writer and broadcaster Eoin Warner for a conversation about the wonder, fragility and extraordinary power of our seas. From changing coastlines and marine ecosystems to the deep human […]

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