Main Programme

Got something to say? Take the mic. Join Daragh Fleming for an evening of original spoken word, big ideas and creative expression, with a platform for young writers and performers to express their art with their peers. Between performances, Daragh explores what spoken word can offer as a creative outlet — from turning thoughts and […]

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Programmed by Children’s Books Ireland with the support of Foras na Gaeilge, this Literary Producer Event will feature a panel of six professional children’s book authors and illustrators in conversation with former Laureate na nÓg, Patricia Forde. Panelists Richie Conroy, Sadhbh Devlin, Neil Sharpson, Tristan Rosenstock, Andrew Whitson and Máire Zepf are artists who represent […]

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Join author and historian Pat Liddy, or one of his expert guides, for a walking tour of the neighbourhood around the Festival Hub, taking in many key landmarks associated with a wide range of our famous historic writers and the early development of writing in Ireland. Starting outside the gates of the National Gallery on […]

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Join poet Nell Regan for this engaging workshop – bring a picture of a place you love (a landscape or cityscape), a pen and a willingness to play. We’ll look at a myriad ways to approach the same thing/view, aiming for a freshness of language and perspective. Suitable for all.  Followed by an optional letterpress […]

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Chairs: Melissa Campana (Children’s Books Ireland) and Sarah Webb (Children’s Author). Speakers:  Ivan O’Brien (MD, The O’Brien Press), Matthew Parkinson-Bennett (Publisher, Little Island Books), Venetia Gosling, (Children’s Publisher, Gill Books) and Caitríona Nic Sheáin (Publisher, An tSnáthaid Mhór).        The world of Irish and international children’s books has seen a lot of changes over the last […]

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Join author and historian Pat Liddy, or one of his expert guides, for a walking tour of the neighbourhood around the Festival Hub, taking in many key landmarks associated with a wide range of our famous historic writers and the early development of writing in Ireland. Starting outside the gates of the National Gallery on […]

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Join us for a thought-provoking discussion about changing laws and attitudes around book censorship in the USA and its chilling influence across Irish culture. With first-hand perspectives from both sides of the pond, panellists include Elaina Ryan (CEO of Children’s Books Ireland), Sarah Carey (Journalist), Kim A. Snyder (Director of ‘The Librarians’) and librarian Audrey […]

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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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Join us for a special conversation on the art of translating from Indigenous and minoritised languages. In celebration of the United Nations Indigenous Languages Decade, this event will feature readings and discussions with the translators of two award-winning poetry collections: Robin Munby, translator of Asturian poet Raquel F. Menéndez’s The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad (Skein […]

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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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