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Dublin City Libraries Readers’ Day Christine Dwyer Hickey, Miriam O'Callaghan, Joseph O'Connor and David Park
Saturday 08th November @ 2:00 pm
  • Featured
  • Fiction
  • Main Programme
  • Non-fiction
Join us for a lively and engaging afternoon of book chat with some of Ireland’s most exciting contemporary authors. Christine Dwyer Hickey’s Our London Lives (Atlantic) is a deeply moving novel of love and loneliness in an ever-changing city. David Park’s Ghost Wedding (Oneworld) is a masterful portrait of love, betrayal, and how the past […]

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The Culture File Debate: Do Bugs Need a Glow-Up? Rachel McKenna, Nessa Darcy, Cassia Gaden Gilmartin and Liam Lysaght in conversation with Luke Clancy
Saturday 08th November @ 2:15 pm
National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin
  • Featured
  • Main Programme
  • Nature
A ladybug lands on your hand – it’s a picture-perfect moment. But what if it’s an earwig? Or a woodlouse? Do they deserve the resultant squeal of disgust? Can critters ever become as charming and glamorous as bumblebees and butterflies? Is it time to befriend those multi-limbed beings that outnumber us 200 million to one? […]

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A Literary Walking Tour
Saturday 08th 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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Ailceimic an Aistritheora The Translator’s Alchemy
Saturday 08th November @ 2:30 pm
  • Featured
  • Irish Language
  • Main Programme
Plé ar aistriúcháin liteartha – An tOllamh Michael Cronin i mbun comhrá le Máirin Nic Con Iomaire, Antain Mac Lochlainn agus Mícheál Ó hAodha. The term ‘transcreation’ is often used to capture how literary translation is an alchemical act. This round-table talk features three leading translators – from other languages into Irish, and from Irish […]

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Raising Voices Showcase Amelia Etherton, Caoimhe Hennessy, Clara Laherty, Coireall Kent, Eve Magahran and Laura Ambrose
Saturday 08th November @ 4:45 pm
  • Featured
  • Main Programme
  • Professional Development
Raising Voices is a programme run by Children’s Books Ireland, Dublin Book Festival, Publishing Ireland, Illustrators Ireland, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. It aims to develop and support aspiring artists, making work for children and young adults, whose voices have been underrepresented in literature; breaking down barriers to publication, progression and inclusion, and increasing diversity […]

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The Dublin Pub Donal Fallon in conversation with Aoife K. Walsh
Saturday 08th November @ 6:00 pm
  • DBF After Dark
  • Main Programme
  • Non-fiction
Bestselling author and Three Castles Burning creator Donal Fallon returns with The Dublin Pub: A Social and Cultural History (New Island). Join Donal at the vibrant Rascals Brewery in Inchicore, where he will explore the hidden histories of iconic pubs like The Long Hall, Grogan’s, and The Palace, as well as Dublin’s early houses, gay […]

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Móroíche Filíochta agus Ceoil Gala Poetry and Music Night
Saturday 08th November @ 6:00 pm
  • DBF After Dark
  • Featured
  • Irish Language
  • Main Programme
  • Music
  • Poetry
Tá an ghontacht sa chnuasach nua ó Louis de Paor, Cé a Mharaigh Emma Mhic Mathúna? a mbeifeá ag súil leis ó shárfhile. Tugann Rince Aeir le Caitríona Ní Chléirchín ar thuras beatha sinn trí bhóithre corracha an ghrá agus an uaignis. Is geall le haislingí beaga na dánta sa chnuasach I Muinín na nDúl […]

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The Translator’s Heart in Winter Kevin Barry in conversation with Mihaela Buruiană
Saturday 08th November @ 6:00 pm
Books Upstairs
  • DBF After Dark
  • Featured
  • Fiction
  • Main Programme
A love story and an adventure, The Heart in Winter is a unique novel, presenting the translator with fantastic but demanding material. Kevin Barry and his Romanian translator Michaela Buruiană will discuss how to transport the readers of the English and Romanian editions to Butte, Montana in 1891, a space and time so far from […]

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Poetry Ireland Introductions | Céadlínte
Saturday 08th 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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Modern Fables, Ancient Ghosts Oisín Fagan, Barbara Leahy and Ferdia Lennon in conversation with Emily Hourican
Saturday 08th November @ 8:00 pm
  • DBF After Dark
  • Featured
  • Fiction
  • Main Programme
Join an evening of conversation around three transportive and absorbing novels. Set in an era of global upheaval, Eden’s Shore (John Murray Press) by Oisín Fagan is an epic and imaginative tale of greed, revenge and love. Rembrandt’s Promise (Eriu) by Barbara Leahy draws us back to the Dutch Golden Age in this gripping story […]

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A Literary Walking Tour
Sunday 09th 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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Irish STEM Lives Jane Grimson, Turlough O'Riordan and Luke O’Neill in conversation with Jonathan McCrea
Sunday 09th November @ 11:00 am
  • Main Programme
  • Non-fiction
  • Science Week
From natural philosophers to particle physicists, Irish STEM Lives (Royal Irish Academy) spotlights 46 trailblazing scientists who shaped Ireland’s scientific story. Join the book’s editors Jane Grimson MRIA and Turlough O’Riordan and biochemist Luke O’Neill MRIA in conversation with science broadcaster Jonathan McCrea, as they delve into some of these extraordinary lives. Hear about the bold ideas and unexpected breakthroughs that have shaped STEM today. […]

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