Programme 2026

As short stories continue to captivate, join us as we delve into two striking collections by award-winning writers. Niamh Mac Cabe’s Four Night Seas (Lilliput Press) features characters navigating emotional or existential thresholds – grieving, seeking meaning or reconciling with the past  – in this collection that blurs the line between the internal and external […]

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You’ve just started enjoying Irish, or you’re a fairly fluent speaker who hasn’t opened a book in years, or you’re an occasional reader as Gaeilge wondering what’s new and best. Beidh comhairle againn duit ag an gClinic Leabhar do Dhaoine Fásta, do gach leibhéal cumais agus taithí! Roinnfidh an scríbhneoir cáiliúil Anna Heussaff a cuid […]

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For a writer, failure can mean the waste of years’ worth of work. Three contributors to The Dublin Review – Rory Gleeson, Kevin Power and Cathy Sweeney – join Aingeala Flannery to talk about the writer’s life in a culture that fetishises failure – but only if it has been followed by success.   Rory […]

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The Fighting Words Story Slam with MC Dave Rudden at the Dublin Book Festival is an open mic event for young people aged 13–18 to share original stories, poems, and songs! This fun and exciting platform celebrates youth creativity and gives performers a chance to shine on stage. Registration is required for performers and audience spots are […]

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Join Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) author (and host), Jeff Kinney, as he celebrates the release of his latest book with a knock-out, interactive stage show, set to EGGSPLODE with fun for the whole family! For audience members who aren’t too chicken, they may be a contender in the ring on stage for a […]

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Raising Voices is a programme run by Children’s Books Ireland, Dublin Book Festival, Publishing Ireland, Illustrators Ireland, West Cork Literary Festival 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 […]

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Join author Zoltán Danyi and his Northern Irish translator Owen Good on the occasion of the launch of the first English-language translation (from Hungarian) of Danyi’s prize-winning first novel: The Carcass Remover, published by Bullaun Press, Ireland’s first press dedicated to literature in translation. In a conversation between author and translator, introduced by Sean O’Reilly, attendees can expect an in-depth […]

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Best known for being the much-loved voice behind Today FM’s Gift Grub show, award-winning comedian, actor and writer Mario Rosenstock is now bringing readers behind the scenes and giving an eye-opening, laugh-out-loud look at his unique journey, in his brand new memoir Gift Grub & Me: My Life in Comedy (Merrion Press). With trademark hilarity […]

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