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The Ulysses Guide Walking Tour with Robert Nicholson
Friday 07th November @ 1:00 pm
National Library of Ireland
  • History
  • Main Programme
  • Non-fiction
  • Walking Tour
Explore the streets of James Joyce’s Dublin with author and Joycean Robert Nicholson as he takes you on a walking tour based on the new edition of his best-selling The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce’s Dublin (New Island). First published in 1988 and updated here for the streetscape in 2025, The Ulysses Guide is a […]

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ProperBook: The Next Step Bruce Stanley, Aoife Murray, Oisín McGann, Helen Carr and Matthew Parkinson-Bennett in conversation with Sarah Webb
Friday 07th November @ 2:00 pm
Irish Writers Centre
  • Featured
  • Main Programme
  • Professional Development
The Next Step: Information and Advice for Newly Contracted or Recently Published Children’s Writers and Illustrators Chair: Sarah Webb Speakers: Bruce Stanley (Accountant), Aoife Murray (Children’s Books Ireland), Oisín McGann (Author), Helen Carr (Editor, The O’Brien Press), Matthew Parkinson-Bennett (Publisher, Little Island Books) Congratulations! Your children’s book has been accepted by a traditional publishing house. […]

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A Literary Walking Tour
Friday 07th November @ 2:15 pm
  • History
  • Main Programme
  • Non-fiction
  • Walking Tour
Starting off from just outside the Viking foundation of Christ Church Cathedral, join author Pat Liddy, or one of his expert guides, on a walking tour of the old city. Learn about the first development of writing in Ireland, from the earliest monastic settlements to the internationally-recognised flowering of some of the most famous writers […]

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Poetry and the Duty of Care Róisín Leggett Bohan, Jennifer Horgan and Lianne O'Hara in conversation with Martin Dyar
Friday 07th November @ 6:00 pm
  • DBF After Dark
  • Featured
  • Main Programme
  • Poetry
In this event we explore the power of poetry to care for the vulnerable, to extol the living and honour the memory of all that is lost. What is a poet’s relationship to the experience of pain, their responsibility to bear witness, the commitment to do no harm? Poets Róisín Leggett Bohan, Jennifer Horgan and […]

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Short Stories in Focus Claire-Lise Kieffer, Shane Tivenan and Dave Tynan in conversation with Kate Barry
Friday 07th November @ 6:00 pm
  • DBF After Dark
  • Featured
  • Fiction
  • Main Programme
Join us as we delve into three powerful debut short-story collections. The stories in Claire-Lise Kieffer’s Tenterhooks (Banshee Press) are humorous, off-kilter, savage and surreal; illuminating an Ireland both strange and familiar. Shane Tivenan’s To Avenge a Dead Glacier (The Lilliput Press) contains stories that explore the lives of rural Irish outsiders, with style, verve, […]

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Book Launch: morsels Susanna Galbraith
Friday 07th November @ 6:30 pm
  • DBF After Dark
  • Featured
  • Launch
  • Main Programme
  • Poetry
Susanna Galbraith’s debut collection, morsels (Macha Press) is a formally ambitious multi-sequence debut collection. The title series ‘morsels’ explores the ways language and its absences shape our relationships with one another, with natural environments, and with human and animal bodies. Across three interconnected sequences, Galbraith makes sensitive yet tough-minded forays into unstable, ever-evolving territories: love, […]

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Shadows of Our Past Patrick Holloway, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin and Kuba Shand-Baptiste in conversation with Tara McEvoy
Friday 07th November @ 6:30 pm
Museum of Literature Ireland
  • DBF After Dark
  • Fiction
  • Main Programme
Exploring themes including family, grief, memory, migration and belonging, join us for an evening around three captivating debut novels. Patrick Holloway’s The Language of Remembering (Époque Press) asks how we connect to the people we love, moving on from the past to find meaning in the present. In Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin’s Ordinary Saints (Bonnier Books) […]

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Sunday Miscellany: A Selection 2023-2025
Friday 07th November @ 7:00 pm
  • DBF After Dark
  • Launch
  • Main Programme
 New Island Books invites you to celebrate the official launch of the Sunday Miscellany: A Selection, 2023–2025, a brand-new selection of recently broadcast essays, poems and stories first heard on the legendary RTÉ Radio 1 programme. Featuring a spectrum of writing talent, from household names to striking new voices, this book offers solace, joy and […]

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Poetry Ireland Introductions | Céadlínte
Friday 07th November @ 7:30 pm
  • DBF After Dark
  • Irish Language
  • Main Programme
  • Poetry
Introductions | Céadlínte is a Poetry Ireland showcase of 14 of the most exciting new poets writing in English and Irish on the island of Ireland today. The poets were selected by Jessica Traynor and Aifric MacAodha. We’ll have a musical guest along on the night.  Introductions | Is sárthaispeántas d’Eigse Eireann é “Céadlínte” de […]

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Writing the Unspeakable Gaea Schoeters and Audrey Magee in conversation with Neil Hegarty
Friday 07th November @ 8:00 pm
Museum of Literature Ireland
  • DBF After Dark
  • Main Programme
Can fiction allow writers and their readers to grapple with the worst of human behaviours? Through their writing, Gaea Schoeters and Audrey Magee have both explored historical and imagined instances of extreme cruelty and its devastating moral consequences. In today’s world, has the normalisation of violence and the assignation of colonization to the past inured […]

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DBF After Dark Festival Club: Echoes on the Page Anna Carey, Brendan Mac Evilly and Maggie Armstrong in conversation with Tony Clayton-Lea
Friday 07th November @ 8:00 pm
  • DBF After Dark
  • Featured
  • Fiction
  • Main Programme
Immerse yourself in an evening of artforms at our DBF After Dark Festival Club, where we’ll be exploring books inspired by music, art and film. Anna Carey’s Our Song (Hachette) is a story of second chances, and following dreams. Brendan Mac Evilly’s novel Deep Burn (Marrowbone Books) explores the seductive and devastating power of art, […]

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A Literary Walking Tour
Saturday 08th November @ 10:30 am
  • History
  • Main Programme
  • Non-fiction
  • Walking Tour
Starting off from just outside the Viking foundation of Christ Church Cathedral, join author Pat Liddy, or one of his expert guides, on a walking tour of the old city. Learn about the first development of writing in Ireland, from the earliest monastic settlements to the internationally-recognised flowering of some of the most famous writers […]

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