Programme 2024

Join broadcaster Luke Clancy for a live recording of RTÉ lyric fm’s The Culture File Debate, as our writers’ panel champions the birds that set their quills aflutter. For the program, writers John Banville, Orit Gat, Sara Baume, and Paddy Woodworth will help us discover how birds—from the resilient pigeon to the enchanted crane—glide through […]

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Join best-selling author Erika McGann for a special family event! Erika will read from her new book, Chasing the Shy Town (Little Island Books, illustrated by Toni Galmés) – a fun and fantastical story about the impossibility of being perfect. With storytelling, curious facts and a brain-teasing game or two, discover how inspiration is all […]

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Join Tyler Anbinder and Tomás Finn in conversation with fellow historian Mary McAuliffe about their richly researched historical works. Anbinder’s Plentiful Country (Eriu), is a gripping narrative of Irish immigrants who transformed America after the Great Hunger, defying hardship to redefine the American dream. Inside Rural Ireland (UCD Press), edited by Tomás Finn and Tony […]

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Dangerous Ambition: The Making of Éamon de Valera (Eastwood) charts Eddie, later to be known as Éamon, de Valera’s rise from an early life of stark rearing and thwarted ambitions to becoming the founder of the most powerful political party in Ireland for much of the past century. Join author Colum Kenny in conversation with […]

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Rough Beast (Apollo) is Máiría Cahill‘s harrowing story, told here for the first time in full detail and with unsparing honesty. It is a story of unimaginable trauma and political corruption, but above all it is the story of one young woman’s defiance of those wielding power to inspire fear and silence, and their influence […]

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Critically acclaimed as satirical masterpieces, the best-selling Ross O’Carroll-Kelly series of books is drawing to a close with Don’t Look Back in Ongar (Sandycove). In this final instalment, the nation’s favourite upper class yob returns home from bonding with goys on the Camino to pandemonium. His father is causing havoc in Áras an Uachtaráin, Sorcha […]

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The Dublin Review asked three brilliant contributors – Sam Bungey, Brenda Romero and Jessica Traynor – to choose an essay they especially love from the journal’s nearly twenty-four years of publishing. In this year’s Dublin Review Conversations event, the three will talk about what they love about these essays, how they relate to their own […]

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Taking us back to a hot Dublin summer in 1866, Juliana Adelman’s The Grateful Water (New Island) is a gripping detective story of secrets and guilt, steeped in the city’s history. Leeanne O’Donnell’s Sparks of Bright Matter (Eriu) is an equally gripping game of cat and mouse through Georgian London’s underworld, in pursuit of an […]

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