Programme 2026

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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Volume 12 of Winter Papers, Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, is published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, photography, visual art, along with craft interviews and in-conversation pieces on writing, film, theatre, photography, music, and more.  ‘a treasure trove of soul fuel with deep roots in Irish soil’ – Irish Times Join us […]

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Join author-illustrator Steve Webb for a fantastically fun event bringing his brilliant Peng and Spanners series (Faber & Faber) to life! In this latest graphic novel, our duo’s action-packed trip to the Invention Convention with Spanners’ latest and greatest invention has hilarious consequences. Find out about Steve’s creative process, from initial idea to printed book, […]

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Céard é an peata teaghlaigh is deise? Cat? Madra? Muc ghuine? Nó rud éigin nach mbeifeá ag súil leis… rud éigin le meangadh lonrach agus dearcadh dána, b’fhéidir? Join children’s writer and former Laureate na nÓg, Patricia Forde, as she shares her new picture book, An Peata Is Fearr (Futa Fata) in this fun-filled bilingual […]

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Join us for an illuminating conversation with three writers whose books explore stories from history through objects. Turtle Bunbury’s Laois in 100 Objects (Wordwell Books) is a unique history of the county from prehistory to the present day. Siobhán Doyle’s Irish Sport in 100 Objects (Merrion Press) brings us around Ireland to discover objects that […]

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Take a step back in time with us as we immerse ourselves in three gripping historical fictions. Martina Devlin’s Glorious Monsters (Lilliput Press) is a spellbinding reimagining of Rome’s Romantic circle, involving the brilliant, volatile, and dangerously entangled Shelleys. Emily Hourican’s A House in Winter (Eriu) is a story of family conflict and class tension […]

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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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Plé ar fhicsean staire leis an Ollamh Michael Cronin. Úrscéal é Bódléar (Leabhar Breac) le Darach Ó Scolaí a phléann leis an athrú a bhí ag teacht ar shaol na tuaithe ar fud na hEorpa san 19ú haois. Bhuaigh An Cléireach, úrscéal leis atá suite sa chéad leath den 17ú haois, Duais an Oireachtais in […]

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